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| | death. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Somatic death is characterized by the discontinuance of cardiac activity and respiration, and eventually leads to the death of all body cells from lack of oxygen, although for approximately six minutes after somatic death—a period referred to as clinical death—a person whose vital organs have not been damaged may be revived. | | | Causes of death in human beings include injury, acute or chronic disease, and neoplasia (cancer). | | | Brain death, which is now a legal condition in most states for declared death, requires that the following be absent for at least 12 hours: behavioral or reflex motor functions above the neck, including pupillary reflexes to testing jaw reflex, gag reflex, response to noxious stimuli, and any spontaneous respiratory movement. |
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| | Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Soon after death (15–120 minutes depending on various factors), the body begins to cool (algor mortis), becomes pallid (pallor mortis), and internal sphincter muscles relax, leading to the release of urine, feces, and stomach contents if the body is moved. | | | For the human body, the physiological consequences of death follow a recognized sequence through early changes into bloating, then decay to changes after decay and finally skeletal remains. | | | Events which were causally linked to irreversible mortality in the past are now prevented from having an effect; even without a functioning heart and lungs, a person can be sustained with life-support devices. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Imperative of 'Signs of Clinical Death' for Organ Transplants |
| | From the clinical point of view, however, the only correct way — and also the only possible way — to address the problem of ascertaining the death of a human being is by devoting attention and research to the individuation of adequate “signs of death”, known through their physical manifestation in the individual subject. | | | In this perspective, you have chosen to explore once again, in a serious interdisciplinary study, the particular question of the “signs of death”, on the basis of which a person’s clinical death can be established with moral certainty, in order to proceed with the removal of organs for transplant. | | | In the light of this anthropological truth, it is clear, as I have already had occasion to observe, that “the death of the person, understood in this primary sense, is an event which no scientific technique or empirical method can identify directly” (Address of 29 August 2000, 4, in: AAS 92 [2000], 824). |
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| | Clinical vs Legal Death |
| | "Clinical" comes from a Greek word meaning bed, and refers in the practice of medicine to work done at the bedside with ordinary physician's tools (as opposed to work done in the lab, or with fancy mac- hines). | | | Legal death, of course, does not describe an objective state-- it merely represents some kind of formal social stamp of approval. | | | X-Message-Number: 1054 Date: 23 Jul 92 23:00:33 EDT From: "Steven B. Harris" < > Subject: Clinical vs Legal Death Lola McCrary says: >> I incline towards "legal death", especially since the definition of "clinical death" does, as pointed out, keep changing. |
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| | Near-Death Experience - Crystalinks |
| | This research note that the aftermath of the experience is associated with both positive and healthy outcomes related to personality and appreciation for life, but also a spectrum of clinical problems in situations where the person has had difficulties with the experience (Orne, 1995). | | | Many commentators see near death experiences as an afterlife experience, and some accounts include elements that, according to some theorists, are most simply explained by an out-of-body consciousness. | | | They are somewhat common, especially since the development of cardiac resuscitation techniques, and are reported in approximately one-fifth of persons who revive from clinical death. |
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| | eMedicine - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome : Article by Patrick L Carolan, MD |
| | Death occurs when vulnerable infants are subjected to stressors at times when normal defense mechanisms may be structurally, functionally, and/or developmentally deficient. | | | In a study of 81 covert nonnatural infant deaths, 77% of the infants had a history of an acute life-threatening event manifesting as apnea, cyanosis, marked pallor, loss of muscle tone, or seizure; 48% had been hospitalized within the week preceding the death. | | | Background: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden death of an infant younger than 1 year that remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including the performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the scene of death, and review of the clinical history. |
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| | Treatment to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death: Clinical Highlights |
| | Deaths from sudden cardiac death can be lowered by preventing the specific heart rhythm disturbances (ventricular arrhythmias) associated with it. | | | ICDs and antiarrhythmic medications to prevent sudden cardiac death are effective in reducing deaths, but their impact on quality of life (QOL) is less clear. | | | In a systematic review of methods of preventing sudden cardiac death, amiodarone was identified as the most effective medication, decreasing mortality by 13 to 19 percent compared to a placebo. |
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| | Life After Death |
| | Nevertheless, a careful examination of the accounts of people who experienced clinical death bring one to the determination that a majority of them had actual visions and not the devil's deception. | | | And so, in our time a string of researchers, having started with authentic medical cases of clinic death, have moved on to personal examinations of out of body experiences. | | | During her clinical death, she saw playmates surround her lifeless body. |
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| | Hypography Science Forums - Clinical Death |
| | As to the first question: What does it mean to be clinically dead. | | | But in general, the longer it takes before basic first aid is applied, the greater the chance of permanent brain damage or even unsuccessful revival. | | | If we take the case of cardiac arrest, the first thing that happens after the heart stops to beat, is that blood is no longer pumped through the body. |
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| | Clinical death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Longer intervals of clinical death can be survived under conditions of Hypothermia. | | | Resuscitation after more than 4 to 6 minutes of clinical death at normal body temperature is difficult, and can result in brain damage or later brain death even if cardiac resuscitation is successful. | | | Clinical death occurs when a patient's heartbeat and breathing have stopped. |
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| | Question 18 about Near Death Experiences. |
| | All the blood was drained from the patient's body effectively bringing her body into clinical death. | | | Near (Clinical) Death Experiences are only a small part of the very large field of spiritual experiences. | | | Keeping in mind that Near (Clinical) Death Experiences happen when the body ceases to function (dies), we can examine scientific claims of duplication. |
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| | Approaching Death |
| | Thibault, G.E. The Use of Clinical Models for "End of Life" Decision-Making in Critically Ill ICU Patients. | | | Wilson, I.B., and Cleary, P.D. Linking Clinical Variables with Health-Related Quality of Life: A Conceptual Model of Patient Outcomes. | | | Skaife, S. Sickness, Health, and the Therapeutic Relationship: Thoughts Arising from the Literature on Art Therapy and Physical Illness. |
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| | Global Catholic News - Organ Transplants Require "Moral Certainty" of Clinical Death, Says Pope |
| | From the clinical point of view, "the only correct way -- and also the only possible way -- to address the problem of ascertaining the death of a human being is by devoting attention and research to the individuation of adequate 'signs of death,' known through their physical manifestation in the individual subject," he explained. | | | Thus, "the death of the person, understood in this primary sense, is an event which no scientific technique or empirical method can identify directly," the Pope continued. | | | Quoting an address delivered by Pope Pius XII in 1957, John Paul II responded to his question by affirming that "it is for the doctor to give a clear and precise definition of 'death' and of the 'moment of death' of a patient who lapses into a state of unconsciousness." |
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| | sciforums.com - Clinical Death |
| | The next morning, the hospital called with the sad news - again time of death was perfect (they were only sleeping 2 or 3 hours at a time those nights, so it was easy to get a rough timeframe for the dream). | | | Since our front nerves coming from our eye are the most sensitive it appears as if most of the light comes from a point in front of the subject, hence the tunnel effect. | | | Similar life changing experiences can be induced with some mushrooms and other hallucinogens. |
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| | Coma and Brain Death Clinical Resources |
| | Roberts: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine 4th Ed.-2004 (MD Consult): | | | Marx: Rosen: Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice 5th Ed.-2002 (MD Consult): | | | Ferri: Practical Guide to the Care of the Medical Patient 6th Ed.-2004 (MD Consult): |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Clinical death |
| | Clinical death is usually defined as the medical state in which it is impossible to revive a person with any technology at medicine's disposal, in essence the complete and irreversible cessation of all body functions. | | | In relation to emergency medical care, clinical death occurs when the patient's heartbeat and breathing have stopped. | | | Despite the fact that the body continues to live in cases of brain death, it is also seen as a valid definition of clinical death by almost all medical establishments. |
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| | Aniwa.com : Scientists create zombie dogs |
| | US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. | | | Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. | | | Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved. |
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| | Clinical death (from death) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Connecticut-based nonprofit organization promoting application of theory in the field of death, bereavemet, and grief. | | | Highlights its causes, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatments. | | | More from Britannica on "Clinical death (from death)"... |
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| | CollectiveMed - Clinical Geriatrics - Death And Dying |
| | Collection of clinical geriatric pearls and important topics. | | | CollectiveMed - Clinical Geriatrics - Death And Dying | | | If you are a developer and would like to add your product to the CollectiveMed.com store, please click here. |
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| | BBC News HEALTH Skier revived from clinical death |
| | "Anna was clinically dead when they pulled her out" | | | Links to other Health stories are at the foot of the page. | | | Anna Bagenholm, 29, was brought back to life after being clinically dead. |
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| | ScienceDirect Info - Content - Books - Reference Works |
| | Coverage includes: accident investigation, alcohol, analytical techniques, causes of death, clinical forensic medicine, crime scene examination, drugs of abuse, explosives, facial identification, fibers, fingerprints, fire invetigation, firearms, forgery and fraud, hair, pathology, pattern evidence, psychology and psychiatry, serology, toxicology | | | Pricing information is available on this website for all Reference Works. | | | It is written in a style that is accessible to forensic scientists, lawyer and law enforcement professionals in more than 200 articles and its highly structured and cross-referenced format makes it the ideal resource. |
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| | White House Studies: The Tormented President: Calvin Coolidge, Death, and Clinical Depression |
| | After all, death and clinical depression are central to the title and content of the book and the reader would have been better served to have this literature presented at the outset. | | | This reader would have preferred that the author had discussed the clinical depression literature earlier in the book as a basis upon which to conduct the case study of Coolidge. | | | The Tormented President is a substantive case study of the private and public life of Calvin Coolidge written against the backdrop of psychological illness. |
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| | Hexapedia - Death |
| | Death is a term that can refer to either the termination of life in a living system, or the state of that organism after that event. | | | For more information please see the article about Death |
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| | clinical death - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word clinical death: | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "clinical death" is defined. |
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| | Palestinian boy in state of clinical death |
| | Three of those casualties were hospitalized in Nablus and the rest were treated in the camp. | | | Nablus - Medical sources said Tuesday that a 12 years old Palestinian boy was declared clinically dead after Zionist forces fired a bullet into his head earlier in day in the Balata refugee camp. | | | The sources said that the boy Nooruddin Amran, an inhabitant of the Deir Al-Hatab village, was hit while visiting his relatives in the Balata refugee camp. |
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| | Crime Scene Investigation Books--General Forensic Science |
| | The scope of applications of forensic radiology includes determination of identity, evaluation of injury and death, use in criminal and civil litigation, in administrative proceedings such as workman's compensation hearings, in medical education, and in research. | | | Until now, there has been no single source of radiologic knowledge for various disciplines to turn to when examining X-rays or other radiologic records as forensic evidence. | | | Forensic Radiology by B. Brogdon (May 15, 1998) |
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| | Clinical Geriatrics, Death & Dying 2006 on PocketGear.com |
| | No other text on the market provides such a collection of succinct and clinically relevant material that can be accessed at the bedside. | | | Requires either the iSilo reader ($19) or the MobiPocket Reader (FREE, need to obtain the text from Mobipocket.com). | | | Clinical Geriatrics, Death & Dying 2006 on PocketGear.com |
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