Health Teller: Brain Stem Death, The Determinants of Mortality

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Brain Stem Death, The Determinants of Mortality

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Posted by Arif Siregar |

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Although someone may have stopped breathing and his heart may stop pumping blood, but the respiratory and circulatory activity often can be restored and maintained when resuscitation measures as soon as possible. But because of the vulnerability of the brain of the lack of oxygen, irreversible brain damage may have occurred prior to heart and lung function is restored, resulting in brain death in a living body. There is the impact of medical, legal, and social importance in determining whether a person is comma maintained by artificial respiration and other supportive measures alive or dead. The doctors, lawyers, and the general public has accepted the idea that brain death, namely non-functioning of the brain with the impossibility to recover, is a determinant of death in these circumstances.

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Brain Stem Death, The Determinants of Mortality

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