How to Use brain death in a Sentence

brain death

noun

• At the time, brain death was not sufficient; the heart had to have stopped on its own.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• For each minute the heart is not pumping blood, there is about a 7-10 percent chance for the loss of life due to brain death.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
• At first, brain death advocates said this is a matter of hours.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• None of the patients met criteria for brain death at baseline.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
• Strict criteria exist for declaring brain death, and lack of a heartbeat is not among them.
  — Christina Han, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
• Menees said the most common reason for people to withdraw care is brain death.
  — George Stoia, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2018
• Since then, however, there are many who have argued that brain death should simply mean death.
  — WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• Collectively, the research proved that brain death wasn’t a single event.
  — Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and causes disease and brain death.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
• McClain was an organ donor, he was taken off life support three days after his brain death.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• White believed that only brain death—the cessation of the brain’s electrical signals—meant true death.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2021
• Objections to brain death are not just religious, though.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• By the time the error was realized, the patient suffered cardiac arrest and partial brain death.
  — Mariah Timms, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
• And the very first heart transplant in 1967 could very well have been a DCD transplant, Mehra pointed out, because there was no legal definition of brain death at the time.
  — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 16 Jan. 2020
• The locus of death shifted from the chest to the brain (and from public view into the private sphere of the hospital room), with the exact time of actual brain death uncertain.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019
• After brain death, the OPO conducts more tests on the organs and works to improve their function, trying to get them to the point that the transplant doctors consider viable, Mone said.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• In other cases, including when a donor dies of heart failure instead of brain death, the organs are removed at the donor’s hospital.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• LiPuma is an associate professor of philosophy at Tri-C, whose work centers on end-of-life care and brain death.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2019
• The rabies virus attacks the central nervous system and causes disease and brain death, the department noted.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2021
• McMath's case sparked debate over brain death and religious beliefs.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2018
• And since some aspects of this technology could presumably function even if the tissue donor was dead, would that change the definition of brain death?
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2018
• Isolated head injuries are one of the leading causes of brain death, which is among the most common catalysts of organ donation, Cron said.
  — Raenu Charles, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
• Physicians identified the cause of Abienwi’s death as brain death secondary to basal ganglia hemorrhage, ICE said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2019
• Under state law, if a patient’s faith dictates that life persists so long as the heart is beating, then brain death alone is not sufficient for a legal declaration of death.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• Keeping a body going for more than a week after brain death is typically difficult.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• The doctors discontinued life support short of brain death as the fetus was 19 weeks old, and the medical staff accepted the belief that a body could not survive long after brain death was declared.
  — Dick Teresi, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• The Post’s obituaries editor, Adam Bernstein, said the newspaper doesn’t recognize brain death as a clear marker of death.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• In both cases, the boys were deprived of oxygen to the extent that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia reached a grim diagnosis: brain death.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• Bioethicists argue that using brain death as the standard definition values what is unique about humans.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• In Pennsylvania and most states, a diagnosis of brain death is enough to declare someone legally dead, meaning he or she can be taken off life support.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024