Good day, dear reader. Today I come to continue the day before yesterday launched part on organ donation, brain death and transplantation. So if a man is so ill that he is likely to die, the question arises: when is this patient irreversibly dead? What can not be changed for this indicator? How can this be diagnosed absolutely reliable? We come to the most difficult point of the whole issue of organ donation and transplantation medicine. To better Understanding a few words about today's picture, which was provided by Swiss transplant doctors for teaching purposes. The left picture clearly a part of the brain with blood can be seen. So this man lives. In the right part of the blood flow is interrupted to the brain and the entire area of the brain shows no blood flows. This man is clearly dead. It is a brain-dead patients. This seemingly "soft" diagnosis is more difficult, considering the steps that lead to brain death. An obituary statement that our citizens understand the most part not understand it. And yet is this statement a prerequisite for organ donation. Recent Developments demonstrate more clearly the problems of acceptance of people with the brain death. Thus been in a public statement of the DSO -Central Region made exactly that. Now for the parts of the brain death diagnosis that are "back No way" in the DSO brochure well described. And yet many people remain curious, mostly non-understand things that are often no viable answers given. These are questions such as " why a person is dead, if only 3% of it (the brain - see the picture above) are dead, but the rest apparently lives " or " is why it moves to a brain-dead Patients with organ removal ? Questions so that fuel the insecurity of people and get and run too often, to reject an organ donation. This general remark controls anticipated. The brain as a central aspect of human consciousness and feel all the emotions, feelings ., pain, etc. This raises the people - in response to the evidence of brain death - the fundamental question of what constitutes human life as it is the sum of the institutions that receive even to the brain machine almost as long? can be. Or is the essence of man more than a functioning biological entity? A very difficult to represent process in which there is disagreement. There is no doubt well aware that death is the last part of life and recognized that takes place in five stages. Even a dying man is still alive. And there is only one human death. While there are for the diagnosis of brain death clear, recognized and practiced procedures, while the coroner has dead spots , rigor mortis and putrefaction as valid and reliable sign of death determined. This, dear friends, I will leave it for today, at this point. A little time is required for many to get that now all classified, own research make and, ultimately, to understand them. Therefore, it will continue in the next blog. To all of you to a nice weekend of Advent, we experience this time in the freezing cold. Nevertheless, it's somehow beautiful. Wishing you all a beautiful snowy day and a friendly Buen Camino Lothar 
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