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What blood types can person with blood type A negative donate?
A person with A negative blood can donate blood to a person with A negative blood and a person with AB negative blood.
What are the key differences between being in a brain dead, vegetative state, and coma, and how do these states impact a person's level of consciousness and brain function?
Brain death is the complete and irreversible loss of brain function, including the brainstem. A person in a vegetative state has preserved brainstem function but no awareness of their surroundings. Coma is a state of unconsciousness where a person is unresponsive. Brain death results in no consciousness or brain function, while a vegetative state may have some basic functions. Coma is a temporary state of unconsciousness that may or may not lead to recovery.
What does being in a vegetative state mean?
A vegetative state is absence of responsiveness and awareness due to overwhelming dysfunction of the cerebral hemispheres, with sufficient sparing of the diencephalon and brain stem to preserve autonomic and motor reflexes and sleep-wake cycles. Patients may have complex reflexes, including eye movements, yawning, and involuntary movements to noxious stimuli but show no awareness of self or environment. Diagnosis is clinical. Treatment is supportive. Prognosis with persistent deficits is bleak, and withdrawal of care should be discussed with family members.
What blood type can donate to everyone else?
Blood type AB can only donate to another AB type. Blood type O+ can be given to anyone, but a blood type like A or B or AB can only be donated to a person who has the same exact blood type as the person who is donating their blood.
What are the bean-shaped organs that filter blood?
The Kidneys filter/clean blood. Healthy people have 2 kidneys and if one is damaged the other is able to function alone. Healthy people can donate a kidney to another person if they both have compatible blood types. If a person has 2 failing kidneys they can be treated with a treatment called Dialysis and their blood can be filtered by a machine while they wait for a transplant.
Does a person in Persistent Vegetative State have rights?
Yes
Can a person in persistent vegetative state move?
Not on their own, but they can if pushed by someone else.
Which of these statements is true about a person in a persistent vegetative state?
Do you think seeds need water to start growing
Can a person in a persistent vegetative state sleep through the night and be awake during the day?
A vegetative state is a condition of severe unconsciousness, with no thought at all, much like a vegetable. A person in a vegetative state does not wake up during the day or at any other time, or if such a person does wake up, then the vegetative state has ended. The term persistent vegetative state indicates that the vegetative state is not ending, it is persisting (or continuing). So, such people do not sleep during the night and wake up during the day. They remain unconscious.
Who was the first person to ever donate their organs?
Ronald Herrick. He gave one of his organs to his twin brother.
Can a person choose what organs they would like to donate?
Yes, they can. This includes kidneys, heart, lungs, liver and many more. they can also ask to be used for donors when they die. this is called being an organ donor. they can write this in thier will.
What are the chances of cure of Persistent Vegetative State?
the person is unconscious and unaware The chances are very very slim. If you were to come out of the vegetative state there is a huge chance of not functioning normally and having brain damage. The chances are very very slim. If you were to come out of the vegetative state there is a huge chance of not functioning normally and having brain damage.
What is a persistent vegetative state?
A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition in which a person is awake but lacks awareness and cannot interact with their surroundings. The person may have basic functions like breathing and sleep-wake cycles, but they show no cognitive or meaningful behavioral responses. PVS is typically caused by severe brain damage resulting from conditions such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, or oxygen deprivation.
What is the medical term for a human vegetable?
The medical term for a human vegetable is "persistent vegetative state" or "unresponsive wakefulness syndrome." It refers to a condition where a person has limited cognitive function and does not respond to external stimuli.
Do you have to be dead to donate blood?
Yes, certain organs, e.g., one of a person's two kidneys, or part of the liver, can be transplanted from a living donor.
CAN a person who had breast cancer donate organs after they die in a car crash?
I do not think so, one cannot give blood either.
Were do they get the organs to be transplanted?
Kidney's are usually transplanted from a family member who is a match as you only need one. Other organs such as lungs and heart are transplanted from a recently deceased person who had opted to donate their organs at the time of their death, they are then removed from the donor and taken to the receipient who is in most need of the particular organ who is most likely to be a match. (blood type etc. is taken into consideration)
