Hypotension and brain death?

Induced hypotension and brain ischaemia.

Autoregulation is the term used to describe the maintenance of constant perfusion over a range of arterial pressures. Autoregulation occurs in all vascular beds, but other mechanisms also act on vascular control, for example autonomic activity and plasma concentrations of hormones. The influence of these other mechanisms varies widely between different circuits, so that the effect of induced hy...

brain death

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Neuronal injury and death following focal mild brain injury: The role of network excitability and seizure

Objective(s): While traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a predisposing factor for development of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), the occurrence of seizures following brain trauma can infuriate adverse consequences of brain injury. However, the effect of seizures in epileptogenesis after mild TBI cannot yet be accurately confirmed. This study was designed to investigate the ...

Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State

For most of human history, there was no perceived problem in determining whether a person was alive or dead. If the person had stopped breathing and had no heartbeat, he was considered dead. During the twentieth century, however, techniques were developed that made it possible to resuscitate some people who had stopped breathing and whose heart had stopped beating. With the invention of mechani...

Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State