Keeping a Brain Dead Patient on Life Support

Process Results Almost all sources indicate that there is little advantage in maintaining ventilation in patients with brain death. Careful study; brain death criteria; organ donation; costs to maintain patient life support and case studies of misdiagnosis patients are accurate as to whether it is beneficial to maintain life support for patients with brain death Probably to the conclusion. 1 Standard brain death of brain death occurs when the brain cells are damaged and the brain and brain stem function are lost.

To understand brain death, it is necessary to understand the shortcomings of loved ones who maintain obvious brain death in life support, intervention does not help the patient, pulls the hospital bed away from the patient, and the cost is high ( Treatment for death is usually not covered by insurance) certificate is written). Hypotension - Patients who died of bread show abnormally low blood pressure because the brain is no longer regulating heartbeat. When the transplant team is waiting for the patient to provide organs, they use vasopressa medication to adjust the blood pressure, only to continue to supply oxygen to the organs. About 97% of patients with brain death have symptoms of hypotension

My family thinks that patients who are wearing mechanical ventilators or respirators are still alive as the patient is breathing. Even though the brain dies, the heart is still beating. The use of life support is that it deals with traumatic events, has more time to accept situations, to grieve, and to maintain longer life for possible solutions. But it is possible for someone to live without their consent, which may prolong their suffering. The disadvantage of this situation is it difficult to judge when the plug can be withdrawn? For JahiMcMath maintaining life, her parents believe that it is morally wrong to make someone die according to their religious beliefs (Schmidt 1). In terms of emotion, Jahi's family is difficult to face in a brain-dead situation, and they become difficult if they are asked to unplug. However, after four years of life support, the organs of Jahi began to stop functioning.