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ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting8·9 months agoNo, if a patient is declared brain dead, there is usually no sedation given. It shouldn’t be necessary, as the neurons responsible for sensing pain aren’t alive and processing signals, and extra medication like sedation comes with the risk of hemodynamic instability, which is already kind of a headache in brain dead patients as the brain is no longer meditating that (extremely oversimplified). Yes, sedation can be measured (sorta) with a BIS probe, a spectral imaging probe on the forehead that acts like an EEG with fewer probes, but it’s not very useful in brain death as it’s ultimately looking at blood flow, and in brain death, we don’t expect to see blood flow to the brain.
All of this, of course, assumes that he was declared brain dead, which is a very specific legal term with very specific parameters that vary slightly state by state, which seems unlikely in this situation. He may have been deemed to have a severe neurologic injury with an unlikely prognosis of meaningful recovery, and thus be a planned DCD (declared cardiac death) donation, meaning placed on a minimally assistive ventilatory support and allowed to die once his respiratory drive was so low he died of hypoxic respiratory failure. But the article is long on anecdotes and short on the technical terms physicians would use, so it’s hard to say.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Alex Murdaugh’s son sues Netflix over docuseries linking him to 2015 death4·1 year ago“I only killed that one girl, not my accomplice”??
I mean, the whole turning point of the story was the death on the boat. But I guess that was cool?
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year?1·1 year agoFor college football fans, Shutdown Fullcast, the only college football podcast. They occasionally accidentally talk about football.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit SquadsEnglish4·1 year agoThe one thing they’re good at unless someone is trying to make a terrorist attack against Russia.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•A Capitol Rioter Has Become a Right-Wing Media Darling. She Just Got Arrested.15·1 year agoShe wants martial law? Does she realize that’d mean soldiers would have shot her on January 6th?
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Ukrainian porn star raises funds for war amputeesEnglish16·1 year agoHe was a part of a group holding a large American flag at midfield, I think for a Giants game. He’s holding it at his waist and it’s flapping in the wind.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Air Force: Ukraine shoots down another Russian A-50 aircraft over Azov Sea5·1 year agoLast submarine became a fireplace.
ArmyTiger@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•No Fap (Masturbation abstinence) is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried - NPR572·1 year agoThere’s gonna be a really weird uptick in prostate cancer in 30-40 years.
The fibula isn’t a weight bearing bone. The part near the ankle is important, as it’s part of the joint, but the middle doesn’t do much. It’s frequently used for bony reconstruction, like for head and neck cancer surgeries.
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