What exactly is “brain dead” - medically speaking?

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This thread is several weeks old.

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Why can’t the organs of a cadaver be used for transplant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the organs of a cadaver be used for transplant?

Tissue degrades quickly.

Blood circulation happens for a reason. When it ceases, the body changes. That's, well, what life is about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the organs of a cadaver be used for transplant?

I do not believe they take organs from living people, even if the person is brain dead. Doctors will keep a person on life support while they assemble the personnel and equipment they need and then they will take the organs very soon after death.

[Anonymous]

Yes in the instance of organ donation, they are taken upon brain death because brain death is death if not for the life support systems sustaining heart and lung function.

[Anonymous]

If a teen is in a tragic seemingly end-of-life car crash, can EMTs put him on life support so they can take his organs in the hospital?

Or might his chances of survival be better if his parents refuse the machines because he might not really need them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the organs of a cadaver be used for transplant?

I do not believe they take organs from living people, even if the person is brain dead. Doctors will keep a person on life support while they assemble the personnel and equipment they need and then they will take the organs very soon after death.

In case the other reply wasn't clear enough - this is 100% wrong. Brain death is death and that's when the organs are harvested viably. Also, they take organs from living people all the time (with their consent!)

Source: wife is a transplant surgeon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone specified the difference between dead and brain dead? (There’s no ventilator involved.)

Why don't you tell us what happened. Otherwise it's hypotheticals and speculation.

But bottom line is you CANNOT come back from being brain dead.

So, they say that your hearing is the last to go, right. If you are declared brain dead and, on a vent, the person is really not hearing the voices, right, because they are brain dead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone specified the difference between dead and brain dead? (There’s no ventilator involved.)

Why don't you tell us what happened. Otherwise it's hypotheticals and speculation.

But bottom line is you CANNOT come back from being brain dead.

So, they say that your hearing is the last to go, right. If you are declared brain dead and, on a vent, the person is really not hearing the voices, right, because they are brain dead?

Hearing might be the last sense to go, although it probably depends on the reason you are dying, but someone who is being kept alive on a ventilator isn't experiencing anything through their senses, including hearing. They are not hearing your voice.

I guess that the only exception to this might be if you believed in an afterlife, and the dead person being able to continue to see or hear you from there, but they'd still be able to do that once their body is dead too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone specified the difference between dead and brain dead? (There’s no ventilator involved.)

Why don't you tell us what happened. Otherwise it's hypotheticals and speculation.

But bottom line is you CANNOT come back from being brain dead.

So, they say that your hearing is the last to go, right. If you are declared brain dead and, on a vent, the person is really not hearing the voices, right, because they are brain dead?

Correct

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone specified the difference between dead and brain dead? (There’s no ventilator involved.)

Why don't you tell us what happened. Otherwise it's hypotheticals and speculation.

But bottom line is you CANNOT come back from being brain dead.

So, they say that your hearing is the last to go, right. If you are declared brain dead and, on a vent, the person is really not hearing the voices, right, because they are brain dead?

Correct

I’m the pp from months ago whose parent went through brain death. The numerous tests I referred to included trying to get a reaction from all senses including the ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a teen is in a tragic seemingly end-of-life car crash, can EMTs put him on life support so they can take his organs in the hospital?

Or might his chances of survival be better if his parents refuse the machines because he might not really need them?

Are you thinking that EMTs are putting people on ventilators who have perfectly viable airways and are breathing on their own? Is that what you believe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the organs of a cadaver be used for transplant?

I do not believe they take organs from living people, even if the person is brain dead. Doctors will keep a person on life support while they assemble the personnel and equipment they need and then they will take the organs very soon after death.

In case the other reply wasn't clear enough - this is 100% wrong. Brain death is death and that's when the organs are harvested viably. Also, they take organs from living people all the time (with their consent!)

Source: wife is a transplant surgeon

She’s now trying to tell us that brain death is the same as death? Or is she confused?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is several weeks old.

The problem is finally getting exposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is several weeks old.

The problem is finally getting exposed.

So this thread technically still has some life but basically, it's dead?