And brain dead means dead, no chance or recovery...
The key point of the article is that the test allegedly used to determine brain death isn't a very good one. I'd be curious to know whether the test described (pulling the patient off a respirator for two minutes) is indeed the actual criterion used. It sounds suspiciously simplistic.
No, this is what is disturbing about this article, you can be alive and not able to breath, this is not the test used anywhere in the world, there are tones of tests that they do including EEG that needs to be flat (I think it is repeated a few times with intervals and they make sure the patient is not on any drugs that suppresses the brain and flattens the EEG and ...
The key point of the article is that the test allegedly used to determine brain death isn't a very good one. I'd be curious to know whether the test described (pulling the patient off a respirator for two minutes) is indeed the actual criterion used. It sounds suspiciously simplistic.