Actuality | Science and Bioethics

The rugby player who ended up in a coma allowed us to see how transplants work
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For the transplantation of vital organs we must ask ourselves whether to perform the explantation after death or die as a result of the explantation
Of Alfredo de Matteo

(AUTOMATIC READING)
The sad story of Rebecca Braglia, the young and unfortunate rugby player ended up in a coma following a tackle, declared brain dead and subjected to organ removal, it is an example of how the transplant machine works.
First of all, it has the task of using a nebulous technical language, unclear, in such a way as to make people think that it is a question that can only be assessed by professionals; secondly, information on the specific case is few and fragmented; third, the new criterion for determining death allows for “play” with the word death and to place it in a specific moment, albeit in a completely arbitrary manner.
In fact, we know that it is not possible to know the exact moment of death but only when it has already occurred, that is, when the unmistakable signs of death itself are evident (for example the penalty deaths).
It is known about Rebecca that the young woman fell into a coma following a gaming accident, that his clinical conditions immediately appeared very serious and were later judged irreversible, that the protocol for the observation of death was initiated in preparation for the fatal confirmation of death and finally that she was subjected to the procedure for the removal of organs.
It is interesting to note how the news of the rugby player's death was released by the media together with that of the start of the process of observing the death, which appears contradictory to say the least. Read More

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Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Brain death is a trick of the culture of death
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The brain death criterion was invented fifty years ago (1968) from Harvard University as an excuse to justify the first vital organ transplants
Of Alfredo de Matteo

(AUTOMATIC READING – with a human voice)
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary (1968) of the first definition of the brain death criterion, by a medical commission created ad hoc by Harvard University to ethically justify the first vital organ transplants. On the Future of 4 An interesting interview came out in February, the signature of Lucia Bellaspiga, to the researcher at the Neurolesi Center of Messina, Silvia Marino.
The occasion is an international meeting that took place in Milan on 2 last February on disorders of conscience, organized by the Irccs Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Foundation.
The neurologist Marino has been working for several years on probing the most hidden residues of consciousness through neuroimaging techniques and studying the reactions of the brain stimulated by sounds., smells and images. To patients apparently deprived of contact with the outside world and immobile for months or years in their bed, the researcher explains in the interview, we administer stimuli of all kinds, above all thanks to the fundamental collaboration of family members. While this is happening, through functional magnetic resonance imaging we can see if the areas of the patient's brain are activated.
So we studied 27 people diagnosed with minimal consciousness e 23 in a vegetative state, and among the latter well 10 they have transitioned to a state of minimal consciousness. Therefore, reiterates the neurologist, the word irreversible applied to disorders of consciousness, including vegetative state, it is no longer usable. Read More

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