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There is so much confusion on what #braindeath is and what it is not (see or dailymemphian.com/subscriber/sec…) that I wanted to provide some education on this critically important matter. A 🧵 on its history and more #neurotwitter #medtwitter
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Before mechanical ventilation, death was defined as the cessation of circulation and breathing, and even though it seemed straight forward, a true phobia in the 18th and 19th C was that of being buried alive. Hence #safetycoffins from where the term #savedbythebell is derived:
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In 1959, Mollaret and Goulon describe #comadepasee or "overcoma" where 23 people had no movement, no EEG activity, polyuria and required pressors, and would quickly die if pressors were stopped: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14423403/ and was also described by Wertheimer/Jouvet the same year
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