brain death

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Over that decade, Nato went from the "brain death" French President Emmanuel Macron warned about in 2019 to a revamped military alliance that now counts Sweden and Finland among its members.

From BBC

Importantly, none of the patients who died in this study were pronounced brain dead, and thus the results are not applicable to brain death.

From Science Daily

The act, for example, needs to clarify when and for how long, if not indefinitely, a person can be kept on a ventilator after brain death if a family objects to it being removed.

From Science Daily

Last year Moazami and his colleagues transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two people who had suffered brain death, and the organs functioned well for several days.

From Scientific American

New guidance has been issued for clinicians on the determination of brain death, also known as death by neurologic criteria.

From Science Daily