IS BRAIN DEATH REVERSAL POSSIBLE IN NEAR FUTURE: INTRATHECAL SODIUM NITROPRUSSIDE (SNP) SUPERFUSION IN BRAIN DEATH PATIENTS = THE 10,000 FOLD EFFECT

Factors influencing decisions on organ donation in brain death patients

Organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. Many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. It is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. It is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...

"Brain death" is not death.

Legal Basis for Donating Organs for Brain Death Patients

Brain death involves the complete and irreversible destruction of brain activity characterized by profound coma, apnea and the absence of all brainstem reflexes. The issue of organ transplantation is a very important issue in the field of jurisprudence and law in addition to being one of the issues to be considered and analyzed in the medical world, especially in jurisprudence and the issue has...

brain death

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Near death experiences (NDEs): The dying brain

There is a growing perception that the existence of near-death experiences (NDEs) poses a serious challenge to current scientific understandings of the brain, mind and consciousness (Braude, 2003; Fenwick & Fenwick, 1995; Parnia & Fenwick, 2002; Parnia, Spearpoint & Fenwick, 2007; Parnia, Waller, Yeates & Fenwick, 2001; Ring, 1980; Sabom, 1998, 1982). This was reaffirmed recently in a high-impa...