Discontinuing ventilation support for a patient who is brain dead will result in cardiac death.
<h3>What is brain death?</h3>
Brain death (also known as brain stem death) is when a person on an artificial life support machine no longer has any brain functions.
Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain life.
Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, but it is defined inconsistently and often confused by the public.
Some of the signs of brain death include:
- The pupils don’t respond to light.
- The person shows no reaction to pain.
- The eyes don’t blink when the eye surface is touched (corneal reflex).
- The eyes don’t move when the head is moved (oculocephalic reflex).
- The eyes don’t move when ice water is poured into the ear (oculo-vestibular reflex).
- There is no gagging reflex when the back of the throat is touched.
- The person doesn’t breathe when the ventilator is switched off.
- An electroencephalogram test shows no brain activity at all.
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