A man in Jenin was brain dead from his wound, said the deputy health minister of the Palestinian Authority, Dr. Munzer Sharif, who was compiling reports in an office in Ramallah Hospital.
Probably not the smartest idea given we are still brain dead from our insane travel day but since it's only for a few hours I think we can manage (well I can, let's see how Vinny holds up).
"I don't think anybody's going to be brain dead from too much studying".
Islan Nettles, 21, was taken off life support at Harlem Hospital after she was declared brain dead from injuries she suffered in the attack, cops said.
OAKLAND — As the clock ticks toward a 5 p.m. deadline for Children's Hospital Oakland to remove a 13-year-old girl deemed brain-dead from a ventilator, experts in medical and legal ethics say there are no "gray areas" in the case and it should never have gotten this far.
It was the morning of Dec. 12, in the intensive care unit of the UCLA Medical Center, just hours before doctors declared her 29-year-old son brain-dead from an aneurysm that ruptured behind his left eye on Nov. 30.
Kidneys transplanted from brain dead donors have a poorer function and a higher risk of rejection than kidneys from living donors [ 1].
But just because the body isn't moving doesn't necessarily mean someone is "brain dead". A study in Science from 2006 found that a vegetative patient who was asked to imagine "playing tennis or moving around her home" showed much more brain activity than expected.
On Monday, doctors attending Calero, 41, pronounced the former Pachuca goalie and the club's current goalkeeper coach brain dead after complications from an arterial thrombosis and encephalic edema.
Imagine, said a colleague, that he gets the heart of an American soldier, brain-dead from being blown up in Iraq.
