15, against all odds, a healthy baby girl was born by caesarean section -- weighing 2.13 kg (4.7 lb) and measuring 42 cm (16.5 inches) -- to her
brain-dead mother, setting a new record in the process, Brno's University Hospital said on Monday.
A healthy baby was born in the Czech Republic to a mother who had been
brain-dead for nearly four months, doctors said on Monday.
Some of the promoters of the "brain death" concept are not claiming anymore that "brain dead" individuals are inanimate organisms, but openly support the utilitarian thesis that "
brain-dead patients are dead enough to donate their organs" (38:110).
Before April 2000, a law was passed by parliament justifying the procurement of organs from those deemed clinically
brain-dead.
The country's health sector is waiting for making a historic landmark as Bangladesh is set to begin kidney transplant from the
brain-dead to partially mitigate huge demand of kidney transplant aspirant patients, reports BSS.
A GRIEVING sister who agreed to turn off her "
brain-dead" brother's life support was later told she had killed a complete stranger.
Before this law, doctors did not have authority to declare a
brain-dead patient dead and did not have authority to switch off life support systems.
'Once a patient is declared
brain-dead, the ventilator is the only means that keeps them alive.
If Charter change (Cha-cha) proposal, for some, is 'dead,' Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan believes that the government's campaign for it is '
brain-dead.'
BAHRAIN must update its laws regarding organs transplant from
brain-dead people, said a senior health official.
"The number of
brain-dead patients last year was 112, and a significant proportion of their organs have benefited many patients." Al-Attar said that the center holds medical seminars from time to time and invites doctors specializing in the intensive care departments along with those who deal with brain dead patients to familiarize the public on the importance of organ donation and the laws governing the process.
And, despite comparing the hard and fast conditions at Chambers Bay to those for the 2013 Open, McIlroy has promised there will be no repeat of the "
brain-dead" performance and missed cut he suffered at Muirfield.