(February 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(February 28, 2015 at 7:25 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: In what world is having no pulse for 45 minutes not dead? please enlighten us on the proper procedure of declaring someone dead doctor.
Well, I'm not a doctor, but I do know that what constitutes "death" isn't how long your pulse has stopped. Death is when life is no longer possible, and there does come a point where the cellular processes in the body no longer function and at the moment, life is not possible. Someone who is pronounced to be "dead" before life can officially be ruled out, is not dead, they are prematurely announced dead. With this woman, her pulse may have stopped for 45 minutes, but clearly, she wasn't dead. Here's a video that may change your understanding for what it means to be "dead".
Actually you're wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_death
Quote:When the heartbeat stops, a person is suffering clinical death - by definition.
Also there the fact that the woman suffered no brain damage after having no oxygen supplied to the brain for 45 minutes.
Quote:Cases of total oxygen deprivation are termed "anoxia", which can be hypoxic in origin (reduced oxygen availability) or ischemic in origin (oxygen deprivation due to a disruption in blood flow). Brain injury as a result of oxygen deprivation either due to hypoxic or anoxic mechanisms are generally termed hypoxic/anoxic injuries (HAI).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ather.html
Quote:But with no sign of life, they called her family into the operation room to declare her death.
'I was dead,' she said. 'My husband tells me, "You were gray. You were cold as ice, and you were dead. You had no color in your lips".'
I like that you're trying to contradict the testimony of the Doctors despite the fact of you having no medical expertise and having not been there.