Likewise, for each patient in group II, the specific timing of the brain death examination and nuclear medicine scan result, coinciding with official declaration of death, was recorded.
Marcus's contemptuous description of religion as "fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, and fear of death," his examination of religion in the light of pure logic, of science, of what he calls "intelligence," takes on a bitter philosophical guffaw of cosmic irony in light of the fact that it's being told by Marcus's immortal... well, not soul, but his seemingly immortal mind.
However, a clinical diagnosis of brain death involves examination of the brain stem only, which is why Joffe et al. emphasized that a brain-dead patient does not need to have irreversible loss of the entire brain to be dead [28].
Although Israel has repeatedly denied any role in Arafat's death, an examination of his personal effects by Swiss experts two years ago found "abnormal" levels of polonium — an extremely radioactive toxin — fueling the belief that foul play was involved.
After death, histological examination of internal organs was performed to assess the presence of emboli and the equality of liver injury.
We revealed high specificity in the recording of asthma deaths, during examination of postmortem information and toxicology reports, to confirm that 243/283 (86%) deaths were due to asthma rather than having asthma as a comorbidity when another immediate cause of death existed.
The data are reported by a medically qualified death registrar who is usually well aware of the clinical course of the disease because for over 90% of cancer deaths examination at hospital prior to death was the basis on which the death certificate was issued [ 12].
Proper characterization of maternal deaths requires the examination of the cause of death in the context of the reproductive event.
Lumican deficiency resulted in significant (50%) perinatal death and further examination of the lum−/− neonatal hearts revealed an increase in myocardial tissue without a significant increase in cell proliferation.
These are based on hospital admission data (Scottish Morbidity Record 1), dispensed medication records, death certificates, and examination of medical records from Tayside hospitals.
