Pupillary diameter in brain death or clinical death: is it reliable?

[Brain death: is it an appropriate term?].

INTRODUCTION Brain death is generally accepted as a concept to indicate death. It was introduced about 40 years ago, and it was considered the ideal situation for donation of organs. METHODS During this time, however, there have been problems in the understanding of this concept both in the medical profession and in the general population. University students from medical and non-medical scho...

"Brain death" is not death.

Brain death or brain dying?

For the past 50 years, the medical profession has understood ‘‘brain death’’ to represent the endpoint of a neuropathologic vicious cycle. An initial major brain injury sets off a mutually exacerbating cascade of cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure, and decreased cerebral blood flow, which advances beyond some point-of-no-return to a state of no cerebral blood flow and total brain i...

brain death

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Brain death revisited: it is not 'complete death' according to Islamic sources.

Concepts, such as death, life and spirit cannot be known in their quintessential nature, but can be defined in accordance with their effects. In fact, those who think within the mode of pragmatism and Cartesian logic have ignored the metaphysical aspects of these terms. According to Islam, the entity that moves the body is named the soul. And the aliment of the soul is air. Cessation of breathi...