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In the UK it is not considered to be of value because any continuing activity it might reveal in parts of the brain above the brain stem is held to be irrelevant to the diagnosis of death on the Code of Practice criteria. [22] The diagnosis of brain death is often required to be highly rigorous, in order to be certain that the condition is ...
The phenomenon has been observed to occur several minutes after the removal of medical ventilators used to pump air in and out of brain-dead patients. [4] It also occurs during testing for apnea—that is, suspension of external breathing and motion of the lung muscles—which is one of the criteria for determining brain death used for example by the American Academy of Neurology.
Deaths from brain cancer in the United Kingdom (3 C, 12 P) Deaths from dementia in the United Kingdom (5 C, 17 P) Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United Kingdom (1 C, 42 P)
Deaths from Parkinson's disease in England (73 P) Pages in category "Neurological disease deaths in England" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total.
The change of use, in the UK, to criteria for the diagnosis of death itself was protested immediately. [17] [18] The initial basis for the change of use was the claim that satisfaction of the criteria sufficed for the diagnosis of the death of the brain as a whole, despite the persistence of demonstrable activity in parts of the brain. [19]
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Neurological disease deaths by country (90 C) A. Deaths from anorexia nervosa (24 P) B. Deaths from brain abscess (2 P) Deaths from brain tumor (2 C, 87 P) C.
Neurological disease deaths in the United Kingdom (8 C, 9 P) Neurological disease deaths in the United States (5 C, 18 P) Neurological disease deaths in Uruguay (1 C, 3 P)