(December 7, 2017 at 12:59 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Yup EEG's are super limited in their ability to say if your dead or not . EEG's are a detection mechanism not a central body function .
Really?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772257/
"Electroencephalography: Brain death confirmed by documenting the absence of electrical activity during at least 30 minutes of recording that adheres to the minimal technical criteria for EEG recording in suspected brain death as adopted by the American Electroencephalographic Society, including 16-channel EEG instruments. The ICU setting may result in false readings due to electronic background noise creating innumerable artifacts."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518749/
"Brain death, briefly speaking, is referred to the complete, irreversible, and permanent loss of all brain and brainstem functions. Brain death implies the termination of a human’s life; correspondingly, the diagnosis of brain death is very important (Ad hoc committee of the Harvard medical school to examine the definition of brain 1968). Although there remain some social disagreements or different diagnosis criteria in clinical practice around the world (Wijdicks 2002), some standard tests are widely used, such as the apnea test and brainstem function examination. Notably, it is commonly agreed that EEG might serve as an auxiliary and useful tool in the confirmatory tests, for both adults and children (Wijdicks 1995; Taylor 1997; Schneider 1989). Typically, isoelectric EEG recording is required at least 30 min and may last 3–24 h (Wijdicks 2002); the positive response of EEG tests suggests functioning of the brain. Consequently, the patient in deep coma might show some EEG electroactivity, while the brain-dead patient will not. 1"
