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How are brain death and cardiac death different?
When some one is brain-dead, their circulatory and resiratory functions are still active, but the brain is inactive. Cardiac Death- the heart is stopped- no blood circulates, youu get buried.
What is cardiac necrosis?
Cardiac Necrosis is the death of cardiac tissue.
Is cardiac muscle in the brain?
The only Cardiac muscle in the body is the Heart.
Why brain death occurs exactly 3 minutes after the cardiac arrest?
With the heart not beating anymore, oxygenated blood will no longer be pumped to the brain. This in term will slowly starve to death of oxygen, this, in most cases, is around the three minute mark.
What is cardiac death?
"Cardiac arrest" better known as a heart attack.
Once breathing has stoped and the heart has stoped beating brain death starts in how many minutes?
Brain death can't be determined if the heart has already stopped, this would be considered cardiac death. Brain death is determined when someone is on a ventilator (not breathing on their own due to injury or illness) and an EEG or other procedure has been completed and shows no signs of brain activity. The body will continue to "live" with the help of the ventilator oxygenating the organs, but when taken off the ventilator then the body has no impulse to breathe for itself due to the brain being dead.
What kind of Cardiac conditions can result from a damaged medulla?
One possibility is death because the medulla oblongatta is considered the cardiac center. Without it, or if it is damaged severely can lead to cardiac failure and death.
What happens if a person does not get a pacemaker who needs it?
Cardiac arrythmias.. Sometimes life threatening cardiac arrythmias. Inneficient cardiac out put and death.
What were the final years of Melville like?
New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate.
What can cause sudden cardiac death?
An infarct.
Is brain death truly death?
(And ask questions? - sorry, I couldn't resist.) Seriously: brain death (originally a legal term) by definition means, an irreversible, final (and terminal) cessation of all brain activity. Including not only the neocortex, but the lower regions as well. It is, however, easily confused with various stages of coma.
How is sudden cardiac death described?
When the heart suddenly stops beating effectively and breathing ceases, a person is said to have experienced sudden cardiac death.
