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The brain and no electrical activity. perform tests such as shining a light in the eyes to see if the pupils remove and constrict or rub the eyeballs with cotton ball to test for reaction. sometimes ice water into the ears and see if the eyes move in a particular direction. all of that is to check for activity in the brain stem. doctors will also perform an apnea test. that means they turn the ventilator off and see if the patient is breathing at all on their own. marlise's husband, erick, an emt himself, said his wife would have never wanted this. >> reached a point that you wish your wife's ...

Of respiratory or cardiac, second prong cessation of brain activity and the brain stem. that's where the controversy is, because the brain stem has to be getting some sort of oxygen, but limited. it's not enough oxygen to have a functioning body to indicate that this girl will ever recover. the lack of oxygen to the brain, unlike other parts of the body, once your brain does not get enough oxygen, it can't regenerate itself. when the brain dies, it dies and that's the saddest issue of this case, because she is legally dead there is a death certificate. a hospital, a medical facility in new yor...

Multiple doctors have deck claired her brain dead and classify whole brain death as irreversible cessation of functions in the brain, including the brain stem. the hospital is not giving details of how she will be transported and new beginnings not giving details out yet. time is the -- is of the essence, the bottom line is on tuesday at 5:00 p.m. >> and who has the right to decide? is it the hospital or the parents? thank you. bone-chilling game with a down to the wire finish in green bay. frozen but hot at the same time. chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm v...

Healthy maybe unusually bright full of life child. >> he said she was getting ten different procedures. four root canals and was given four different drugs and wasn't monitored throughout the procedure. >> when we got the mri back. everything except the brain stem, which tells you to breathe. the only last bit which didn't get the oxygen. someone from the office had to run down the mall to get a pedestrian to revive her. by then it was too late. >> and that report came from affiliate kitv. >> turning to another story of a surgery gone very wrong.

With death, the same if your heart stops. brain death means a total loss of brain activity. now, to determine it, doctors will do several things. a physical exam, for example, shine light into the pupils and see, do they dilate, move, construct? gently rub the eyeball with cotton and see if the eye reacts that way. sometimes they'll put icewater into the ears and see if the eyes move in a particular fashion. these are all tests of the brain stem. they'll also do something known as an apnea test. they'll turn off the ventilator and see if the person shows breathing on their own. they'll do scan...