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...other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood clot on his brain. Last week he lay near death after a massive stroke that left him in a coma and partly paralyzed. After decades of his monolithic rule, the Portuguese seemed in paralysis as well...
...documents were remarkably similar. Although the Sydney assembly could not agree on a precise definition of death, there is now a virtually worldwide consensus on the following criteria for establishing that irreversible coma, or death, has indeed occurred...
...face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head wounds, said Neurosurgeon William Sweet, a member of the committee, the brain damage would be the dominant consideration. Then the physician might decide, long before 24 hours had elapsed, that all hope was gone...
...early September Potter will discuss unsettled problems, like what to do about someone in irreversible coma, in The Villanova Law Review. He will say that the report shifts the definition of death from the intuitive to one of sharply calibrated expertise...
Last Hours. While Kennedy lay dying, neurosurgeons recalled cases in which less extensive damage to a combination of these vital areas had not prevented partial or full recovery?even after weeks of coma. Since Kennedy was righthanded, the undamaged left side of his brain was more critical to his body control. In some cases, therapy has helped brain-injured patients to train the less dominant side of the brain to take over. Such cases are rare, and for Robert Kennedy, the damage had been too extensive even for survival. Twelve hours after the operation, the recordable brain waves ceased...