Organ donation: Brain stem death

British Journal of Perioperative Nursing;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of consent and patient's rights in the...examination of brain stem death, and in particular...some of these patients will be brain stem dead. For improved...quality of life for patients in end stage organ...diagnoses of death. Patients who are diagnosed as brain ...

Twenty-year report of the first auditory brain stem nucleus implant

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......stimulation in a patient with neurofibromatosis 2. The patient has continued...WORDS - auditory brain stem nucleus implant...surface of the brain stem. We reasoned...surface of the brain stem. Also, we had patients who were using...be removed. The patient ...

The brain stem in brain death: a critical review.

Issues in Law & Medicine;  June 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ......have taken to preserve his patient's life: e.g., dopamine to...Physicians in attendance on dying patients have to understand themselves...physician as well as the patient, who, if he is not already...entire brain, even of the brain stem, as the UDDA specifies.(6) Structure and ...

PALATAL MYOCLONUS ASSOCIATED WITH COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN STEM BY AN...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......dysarthria. The patient had no nystagmus...margin of the brain stem near the ppontomedullary...compression of the brain stem was made. We observed this patient in our clinic...associated with brain stem compression...described a patient with cervical...

Mapping of brain stem neuronal circuitry active during swallowing

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......poorly understood neural circuit in the brain stem controls swallowing. This experiment studied the swallowing circuit in the rat brain stem by means of fos immunocytochemistry...positive for fos were marked on drawings of brain stem structures for different levels throughout...

Consciousness in the raw: the brain stem may orchestrate the basics of...

Science News;  September 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......born missing roughly 80 percent of his or her brain. These children, 1 to 5 years old at the time...s internal and external world depends on the brain stem, the often-overlooked cylinder of tissue situated...spinal cord and the cortex. Merker argues that the brain stem supports an ...

Current issues in the diagnosis of brain stem death

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......objectives The concepts of brain stem death (BSD) and brain...implications for the patient, this should be cause...that must be met before brain (stem) death is diagnosedTo...heart-lung transplantation patients receiving extracorporeal...days or weeks of the brain ...

Effects of Cochlear Nuclei Electrical Stimulation With Surface Brain Stem...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......implantation of a surface auditory brain stem implant (ABI). Methods: We...cochlear hearing loss. However, patients with bilateral eighth cochlear...nucleus complex (CNC) in the brain stem, could not be treated with...therapeutic approach. The auditory brain stem implant (ABI) ...

Surgical first clears brain stem artery.

Times of India (New Delhi, India);  January 27, 2005 ;     314 words ......percent blocked artery supplying blood to the brain stem on a 63-year-old patient who had suffered a second stroke within...vertebral arteries which supply blood to the brain stem. The brain stem controls functions like heartbeat, respiration...

Drug May Slow Progression of Lou Gehrig's Disease; Study Finds Survival...

The Washington Post;  March 2, 1994 ;     486 words ......of treatment, 57 of 77 patients who took the drug were...compared with 45 of 78 patients who took a placebo...almost doubled in some patients {whose disease had its onset in the brain stem}. That's just unheard...study, involving 959 patients worldwide, to settle...is available only ...

Outcome of brain stem auditory electrophysiology in children who survive...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Brain stem auditory electrophysiology was assessed...by examining the central components of brain stem auditory evoked response (BAER) at different...meningitis have a favorable outcome for the brain stem auditory pathway, with about 1 in 5 having...

Auditory brain stem response throughout the menstrual cycle

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......evaluate the changes in the auditory brain stem response (ABR) that occur in healthy...menstrual cycle. KEY WORDS - auditory brain stem response, auditory evoked potentials...within the nervous system. Since the brain stem potentials were first described by Jewett...

Evaluation of vertigo by autitory brain stem response

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that abnormal patterns of the auditory brain stem response (ABR) could supplement the neuro-otologic...hindbrain and midbrain. KEY WORDS - auditory brain stem response, vertigo. INTRODUCTION We investigated...that the data from the early auditory brain stem response (ABR) can be used ...

Organ donation 2: Consent and patient rights

British Journal of Theatre Nursing;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......consent was sought. However patients who are potential organ donors belong to a group of patients who cannot be asked whether...establish whether the patient consents or not. Here...Sellman 1995), as the patient's final views cannot be...established; for example, the patient may have ...

Fed: Brain stem cell scientists say embryo research still needed

AAP General News (Australia);  August 17, 2001 ;     158 words ......General News (Australia) 08-17-2001 Fed: Brain stem cell scientists say embryo research still...Australian scientists who have isolated a brain stem cell say the groundbreaking discovery...repairing nerve damage, because using brain stem cells avoids problems of transplant ...