Saturday, October 31, 2009

How to diagnose the death?


Answer:
Pupils dilated and unresponsive
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No pulse or audible heart-beat
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No breathing
Usually you also need a " flatline " on an ECG .Edit
I just had to reply to the stupid answer " autopsy is the only way " , you mean you would do an autopsy on someone BEFORE you were sure they are dead ? AHAHAHAHAH
If the person isn't responding or breathing and has no heart rate, their dead.
An autopsy is the only way.
If you're brain is dead then you're dead. Cos the rest of organs can be replaced imo like hearth. Doctor's diagnose a person's as dead if he isn't breathing,his hearth isn't working/there's no pulse,if he looses his body temperature,if he doesn't have reflexes anymore and if his brain doesn't respond to anything then he's dead.
There are various methods used to determine that a person has died. The obvious are absence of respiration, circulation and cardiac activity. Pupils will be fixed and dilated. There will be no response to noxious stimuli. There will be a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier. There's another one but I can't remember it.

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