Sentence examples for brain deaths using the from inspiring English sources

Out of 210 deaths in the ICU, there were 40 (19%) confirmed brain deaths using the SCOT criteria.

Studies that developed a clinically relevant large animal model of brain death using sheep and investigated the physiological responses that occur over 24 hours have been completed (unpublished data).

In our institution, the determination of brain death using a single clinical examination and a nuclear medicine flow study significantly shortened the brain death stay and reduced associated charges accrued during this period.

These approaches to end-of-life care are critically important with regard to the success of organ donation and transplantation programs because they will determine when and how frequently brain death is used as the criterion by which death is declared.

Current guidelines do not include brain death criteria using supportive therapies such as ECMO and therefore should be updated.

OS, defined as the time from diagnosis of brain metastases to death, was assessed using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with the log-rank test.

The concept of brain death was particularly singled out as a potential barrier to becoming a willing donor, with questions being raised about doctors' ability to determine if a patient met the criteria for brain death or whether the medical profession more generally was mistaken for using brain death as the basis for allowing donation to proceed.

"We talked about what brain death means, the criteria used to determine it, if we can be sure or not about death, and the role of a Muslim scholar in deciding the criteria," said Aljoudi.

Second, the brain death model we used was more controlled than the actual brain death which may occur as a result of various clinical conditions.

The sensitivity of each score to determine cerebral circulation arrest was calculated using a clinical brain death diagnosis as the benchmark for analysis.

For the purposes of this paper we set aside the question of whether a whole brain, or higher cortical definition of brain death should be used.