If patients are given ventilators and artificial lungs for a long time, they will inevitably get infected. Too many infections will lead to drug resistance, and eventually such patients will die from the infection.
There is nothing in modern medicine that can replace all the functions of the brain.
The functions of the brain are far more than thinking, far more than autonomous breathing and blood pressure regulation, and far more than body temperature regulation. Once the brain's command is gone, all the body's functions will become dysregulated in a matter of minutes, and the functions of the various organs will not be maintained for long.
The most common clinical case is when the whole brain is truly dead, like Xiaoyu now, other organs will gradually have problems and can no longer be maintained by machines. As the doctor emphasized, money should not be wasted on this.
Doctors understand why people are afraid of brain death. What people fear is the misdiagnosis of brain death.
As Cao Yong pointed out during the previous discussion between the two Cao brothers, from the perspective of medical technology, the rate of misdiagnosis is so low that it is almost impossible, unless someone has a bad conscience.
Medicine emphasizes brainstem death as an important part of diagnosing brain death precisely because of the fear of misdiagnosis. In fact, brainstem death does not mean total brain death. However, since the brainstem is the only link between the brain and the spinal cord, severe brainstem damage will basically quickly lead to total brain death. This is how Xiaoyu died.
If family members want to donate, they should not wait until other parts of the patient's body except the brain become unavailable due to conditions that make it impossible to donate.
In such a situation, some family members may think that the doctor is "heartless" for repeatedly mentioning this: You are "urging" me to donate, I haven't even finished crying, I'm sad. Are you harboring some other profit-making purpose?
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If the doctor doesn't see that you want your family to survive in this world in another way, he or she won't "urge" you, so don't think too much about it.
In fact, doctors should take academic issues seriously and fulfill their obligation to inform family members, and should not think about other messy things. This is what Cao Yong warned a group of Fang Ze's colleagues.
Senior Brother Cao is quite a good scholar, several juniors thought.
This patient is not under Zhai Yunsheng's care. Zhai Yunsheng can only occasionally pay attention to and ask his colleagues about their progress. Today, I came and found that this is the problem. Because we are in the same unit, I can't speak frankly like my nephew.
The child's treatment team frowned. Because of the four elderly people's strong attitude, the treatment team was a little hesitant. Now that an outsider had poured cold water on their heads, they were all sober.
If the donation fails, it is equivalent to depriving the patient of another chance to "live" in this world. The responsibility for not fulfilling the obligation to inform is indeed the responsibility of the doctors.
Doctor Cheng Yuchen suddenly called the students and said, "Go back to the hospital right away. There is news."
The words "there is news" mean that Zhu Xingxin's heart has been found.
All the doctors who heard the good news were delighted.
Without saying a word, Cao Yong took the initiative to drive his fellow junior brothers and sisters back.
On the way, Wei Shangquan bravely asked his senior: "Brother Cao, have you ever seen a heart transplant operation?"
"If you have been to the hepatobiliary surgery department of our hospital and seen a transplant operation, you should have some understanding of organ transplantation. You can tell me about it first," said Cao Yong.
I wanted to ask my senior for advice but ended up being outmaneuvered by him.
Wei Shangquan scratched his head and said, "I have never been to the hepatobiliary surgery department."
Student Wei is really capable. He threw the hot potato to the other two students.
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