How is Brain Death Different than Coma?

[@abhayalwaysalive]

My close friend got into a major accident. Doctors declared him brain dead after 2 days. I knew that brain dead truly means dead But his family was still trying and they got some hope as his heart was still beating through ventilator. They were happy and cheerful that he is still breathing one could see how happy they were after hearing the news that his heart is still beating there is some hope. I was literally in tears looking at how they'll be broken from inside when they know what it truly is.

[@pratishthabajracharya7]

What happened next?

[@abhayalwaysalive]

@@pratishthabajracharya7 well they were excited that he is alive his heart is beating. Doctors declared him dead but as you know in Indian Society people have the tendency to blame the doctors and hospital. So they took him to another hospital and they kept him for 2 days on ventilator. They declared him dead after 2 days. He was just 19 years old and the only child of the family.

[@shairailagan6990]

@@abhayalwaysalive this is so sad 🥺

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

@@abhayalwaysalive "as you know in Indian Society" no, this happen in almost every country

[@abhayalwaysalive]

@@hasanmuttaqin464 people blaming doctors and hospitals, I guess people are same wherever we go.

[@rajdeeproy1943]

Damn it's so scary to think about when u r actually dead but organs r still alive

[@anmol_118]

More like zombie

[@donnawoodman6249]

We live and experience life in our brain, if it is dead then so are we.

[@akulak8782]

Don't worry you won't be thinking at that point

[@anywhere_but_here9546]

"Last stand"

[@piyushpranav4028]

For that we must first have to understand what exactly death is... At superficial level, we only know it is an irreversible state, but what exactly goes inside the cells/neurons or you can say the nucleus where the genetic material is present.

[@sketchley80]

Sadly there is another situation. My Dad had complications 3 weeks post heart surgery... Blood vessel burst and lost blood... Did CPR and it caused brain injury. He appeared brain dead outwardly... But the neurologist said his was severe irreversible brain injury. His frontal cortex had not been injured... But he was also not truly in a coma. They said he was technically initiating his breaths but due to the brain stem being injured his airway needed ventilator to stay open. We ended up pulling the plug after 2 days and no sign of healing... And he passed peacefully and quickly. RIP Dad ❤.

[@archi7896]

🥺

[@pn8746]

RIP

[@Wishingweezy]

Sorry for your loss my friend I don't know you personally but I wish I can find you To console you You can message me any time in this comment I will reply ❤️

[@gutla.himabindu682]

Stay strong

[@johnlucas199]

Good luck

[@arhassoc]

As an organ recipient, who has survived well over five years since being hours from death due to my original organ failing, may I thank all of you out there who now gas a better understanding of brain death and the possibility of donation. My donor is unknown to me (and the other recipients of their other organs) but my family and I cannot thank their family and loved ones enough for giving us the chance of life after their life ended. Blood donors are wonderful people too, but they don't need to be dead, thank goodness!

[@Dongzzzzzz]

@@kylestephenlada8555 you can't donate a brain lol, if a person is brain dead, there organs can still live so the family of the dead patient is suggested to donate the dead person's organ.

[@mashihodpotatoetm4572]

@@kylestephenlada8555 I found this funny, I'n sorry

[@necipfazlay4452]

@@mashihodpotatoetm4572 I found this confusing...

[@xxan84]

Did he actually asked if the other guy got a brain transplant? lol :) arshassoc, I am curious but what organ did you get and what's the life expectancy? Hope you're doing well and have many more years to come.

[@ttouds9583]

@Momina Ansari Well, that's a body transplant not a brain one . You are your brain 😶

[@SpringDavid]

In a nutshell: Brain Death: you're fucking dead. Coma: you're a pokémon out of HP

[@abdouaboud7490]

Yea

[@azysgaming8410]

Thanks

[@ms.yawhaw8831]

THING THING

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

lol

[@heroic_ghost3557]

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH UNDERRATED

[@ultraagilao4026]

The way he says "no one has ever, ever, *ever* woken up from brain death" seems like he's tempting fate lmao. If this was a movie or something some mf would rise from the grave tmmrw 💀💀

[@krel7160]

His brain was dead. It turned out, he was a zombie!

[@СнежныйДжони]

*...until now*

[@jstokes5582]

Actually there is a man named Zack Dunlap that remembered hearing his doctor say he was brain dead. He was really “ticked off” hearing how they were going to take his organs. A relative that was in the medical field tried to test his response to touching his foot and he responded. They did NOT steal his organs and he is still living now. The human brain is like a computer and sometimes after a brain injury the brain is shocked and does not show brain waves but with time it can reset like a computer. In that case the brain can have very minimal waves. Some people are rushed to consider their loved ones to be brain dead and to donate organs. Some people have actually woken up in the O.R. And wondered why they are there so they stopped the organ donation. One surgeon actually was chocked to death by a so called brain dead patient that they were harvesting organs. The doctors have started to give sedation to the brain dead patient because the nurses were uneasy when the blood pressure went up and the body would move around during the death by donation surgery. Colleen S Burns was not dead in Syracuse, New York in 2009 when they had her in the OR to remove her organs and she opened her eyes. They said she was brain dead but she was not.

[@starlessfae]

@@jstokes5582 that's completely different? That's "doctors" harvesting organs from unconscious patients/patients in a coma. They were all misdiagnosed.

[@iqbalumran9883]

MC can wake up from brain death by using the power of friendship

[@diroberts8552]

Really good explanation - let's hope the message gets out there!

[@joelkjoy7352]

Yes it is 💕

[@hassenalwaely6215]

Its crazy how people dont know the difference between brain dead amd coma

[@eduard8329]

@@hassenalwaely6215 yea 1 is the people who int in my games and the others are the afk

[@sabinyingyang7]

Gets out where😂

[@spacesheep6547]

@@hassenalwaely6215 yeah, we're not brain surgeons here, we're just some random People on the internet who have other business completely separate from medicine, and it's not taught at school either.

[@ignorant_scientist]

Sometimes I feel that doctors themselves can't tell the difference. 3 years ago my uncle was in a coma and on life support. The doctors said that he would not likely wake up. They wanted to switch off the life support. My father refused and sought legal advice when they threatened to get a court order to switch it off forcibly. Guess what my uncle started showing signs of brain activity. He eventually was taken off life support as he was able to breathe for himself. He eventually woke up however has sustained permanent brain damage affecting mobility and speech. He is still alive and with us today.

[@doggom8528]

I am suddenly scared of being declared brain dead when im in a coma

[@fidadefoe]

@@doggom8528 that's why I said to my family stab me first to make sure I'm dead before burying me alive. I don't want saddenly wake up in a grave while suffocating.

[@thatdude9091]

@@fidadefoe wouldn’t that be very unlikely? If you’re brain dead enough to be recognised as brain dead (although not fully), then you probably won’t be able to wake up on your own without any medical help. (e.g when being buried)

[@fidadefoe]

@@thatdude9091 yeah.. maybe.. But a little stab won't hurt anybody. Me especially.

[@thewingedpotato6463]

Doctors don't care about their patients, you are just another pay cheque to them. Same reason why nothing gets cured anymore, a lifetime of treatment makes more money than a cure. Don't believe me? It's happening at all levels of society. "They don't make things like they used to" is just another sign of how disposable everything has become.

[@holycheburek6298]

To nail the definition of brain death even further, you could also mention that the person's consciousness is, most likely, also gone with zero hope of coming back, and they're not seeing any dreams and not hearing anything from the outside world as opposed to (some?) people in coma.

[@jigglypuff6297]

Nah this video's definition is solid

[@holycheburek6298]

@@jigglypuff6297 I agree. That's just what I would say additionally

[@FirestormDDash]

Academically speaking, coma means you are not conscious, aware, dreaming, or have any type of brain activity either. Apart from the brain stem usually functioning. The weird stories coming from the rare ex coma patients is usually from medically induced ones, more often then not, tho not always. It just highlights the truly mysterious and unknown about the brain we still dont understand.

[@9nikola]

​@@FirestormDDash Consciousness is not only not fully understood, but it is also ambiguously defined. It can mean "the thing that makes you 'you'" or "the state of being awake" or "the thing that lets 'you' experience (or remember)", etc. Say for example, people often use "consciousness" to describe their full experience of life, or rather, the collection of senses one gathers into their version of "reality", but when you sleep (or faint, or similar), you can say you "lose consciousness" even though you're still experiencing your dreams and sometimes even remembering them. Similarly, when someone is drunk, depending on the definition of "consciousness" they can be conscious as in "they are still alive" but they've "lost consciousness" in the way that they're not fully "conscious" about what they're actually doing. I mean, etymologically, the word "conscious" definitely is supposed to mean "knowing", as in "having knowledge of" being synonymous to "being conscious of" and that consciousness then means that one knows what they're doing and what's happening around them, but for some weird reason, a lot of people decided to use this same word to define being alive as well, which really makes it hard to distinguish between someone being asleep, drunk, comatose, or brain dead, even though these are wildly different. I suspect that the problem people have with distinguishing brain death and a coma might have something to do with how they could both be described with the same exact description depending on the definition of "conscious": "_____ is when the patient is no longer conscious".

[@jaybeanzx]

@@9nikola dam i wanna be your friend.

[@villerogladys1368]

I hate why this got recommended to me after my mom went through this. They did confused the whole family with calling it coma and brain death.

[@mungusfungus51]

Oh, I'm really sorry about that. My deepest condolences, that's really messed up. I hope both you and her can have some peace, I'm so sorry

[@tea_books728]

Agh, I’m sorry that happened to you. But now you know the truth, and if anything (god forbid) happens again, you can differentiate

[@iqbalumran9883]

Hope your doin good lad

[@wegood563]

Did you know that there is no afterlife and your mom is non existent? She’s basically in the same state as she was before she was born. When you die, your consciousness ceases to exists and does not travel to some other dimensional plane nor does it reincarnate.

[@adamanon3371]

@@wegood563 how could you know that? seriously what do you know? consciousness is everlasting

[@ihateavocados6032]

I lost my dad a year ago. he was brain dead due to a heart failure why playing basketball and the ambulance never came in time. My mom kept on bugging me for a while of why I chose to let him go of life support because she thought he was gonna survive so this is a very good explanation.

[@ihateavocados6032]

@Lol I have no idea what to name this channel. he was cremated because he died during the first outbreak and we are overseas so we wanted to bring his ashes and bones back to our grandma after the country opened for flights.

[@raphael1622]

I see, it's very common for people experiencing grief to believe they could've done something else or someone could've helped in a certain way. Try showing this video to your mom and be patient, she's still in denial and needs her own time to heal from this traumatic experience you guys went through. I hope you're all doing fine, and I'm sorry for you loss

[@ihateavocados6032]

@@raphael1622 thank you so much!. I appreciate that ☺️

[@anonymouscausewhynot]

I’m sorry for your loss. Just know you did the right thing.

[@ihateavocados6032]

@@anonymouscausewhynot thank you so much..That was all I needed to hear

[@AcrylicArt_Paintings]

You can feel his frustration as he repeatedly tells us they are not the same , this further informs us that he once met someone who wouldn’t listen to him and proceed to tell everyone they are the same thing , my condolences, (And also I’m not fun at parties you probably know that by now)

[@fancyfox3602]

At least you tried

[@g.a.altnbay5204]

Teasing yourself shows you are actually fun✋☺️thanks for your notice btw

[@ilsevanderbij7179]

I was in a coma for a while after a traffic accident. Thankfully I woke up after about a day and a half and I've learned how to walk, talk and function in society again. I'll be left with some chronic health conditions for the rest of my life but I'm glad I'll still be able to enjoy some life quality. To everyone who wasn't as fortunate as I was, I'm with you and I hope things get better one way or another. And to everyone else waking up after a coma or vegetative state, you can do it! It may seem impossible but you will be able to reach the goals you are setting for yourself. Don't let anyone else decide your pace or comfort, do it at your own time, and trust me you will make it. That's what I did- it took me half a year to fully recover physically, but it was half a year well spent. I'm thankful for everyone who has helped me and all the others with these conditions.

[@rainchopper898]

I like "Don't let anyone else decide your pace or comfort"

[@yashbhatt3815]

My aunt had brain haemorrhage after 3 months of having a heart operation. Doctors said she was brain damaged. We kept her in ventilator for few days. Then she passed away in front of me. It was really heartbreaking moment.

[@ehe5669]

condolences

[@ElwoodBluesAK]

Spent two nights explaining this to my wife, But she refused to give up any of our child's organs. You'll be missed Kobus ♥♥♥

[@tearyowl6075]

This was the case of my Auntie, she was in a state of brain death.. that's why the doctors informed her family that there's no more chances of recovery/survival😭 her organ functions (except for brain) are just dependent with the machines.

[@blueblood9604]

Hey

[@feraynironmane8101]

I have a living will. If I am in a vegetative state with less than 10% recovery chance, or have Dementia and have no recollection of the people I love, I'm already dead. Take my body and give someone else the chance at life I had, so they can be the person they deserve a chance to be.

[@anthonys2ndacountyeet10]

No, because even if you are guaranteed to die from the coma you are in, you will stay alive till you ded.

[@mirumiruyokouwuowo7068]

i rather do the same, i'm too terrified to ever live like that, especially of dementia. If i can't wake up at all or i am just not the same woman my loved ones have known, is it truly worth it for me or others to live like that?

[@thatdude9091]

I get the dementia part, but a 10% chance doesn’t seem so low

[@oogooboggins5956]

@@anthonys2ndacountyeet10 yes exactly, so if i am ever doomed to be stuck in a coma until i die, just kill me and give my organs to someone else. I dont want to be stuck in a coma forever, id rather die.

[@billybob7947]

children in africa can eat ur organs 4 food

[@Mixxivita]

these kind of videos give me an existencial crysis of the "nothingness" that awaits us in death. i cant get it out of my head for a couple of days but eventually i forget , everyone forgets the impending doom

[@forgor4410]

Me

[@oogooboggins5956]

it seems really peaceful to me. we all enjoy sleeping, death is the eternal sleep.

[@Mixxivita]

@@oogooboggins5956 últimate nothingness means you dont get to feel peaceful nor sleep literally one cannot picture real void because in order to do so you imaginé your Pov

[@Yuumi03_]

@@oogooboggins5956 the thing that triggers me is the word "eternal" I cannot imagine something lasting forever and just not seeing or feeling anything that last for eternity

[@oogooboggins5956]

@@Yuumi03_ I mean, you won't even need to conprehend it because you won't exist to.

[@thefemalethunderbirdsnerd3214]

A coma means that you are alive but in a suspended state of sleep, be it medically induced or by injury resulting in temporary brain damage. Brain death, however, is that from permanent brain damage beyond repair that can lead to the patient being legally dead.

[@INDberlin]

But there are few cases of brain death recovery.. probably they got confused with coma?

[@TheFlyingNinjaGamerTFNG]

@@INDberlin yeah

[@hunterbear2421]

we need really need to make robots that can go throw the brainstream and repair damage because that could save someone from brain death

[@INDberlin]

@@hunterbear2421 we already have laser treatment.. its just that it cant fix the broken nervecord.. and typically i guess no one can build a machine that can fix the nerve cord..

[@hunterbear2421]

@@INDberlin surpising its going to be possble soon i heard that nanobots could be out by 2050, so maybe that will do it?

[@rickkcir2151]

Nothing annoys me more than when people say “this person was technically dead for X amount of seconds” or something to that degree. When they say that they tend to not understand that it means “clinically dead” which basically just means their heart stopped. Yes that is serious, but not that uncommon, and not what most would consider “dead”. Biological death is being brain dead, and like the video says, no one has come back from that.

[@oogooboggins5956]

we've only lived with the fact that the brain is who we are for a few decades. For the longest time, people thought the heart was where our soul and thoughts and "who we are" was, so when your heart stopped, that was serious biz. Now we know better, but alot of our systems are still going off of old rules, it'll take time to change certain notions.

[@Remyria]

are you dead between each heart beat? your heart is not beating when it's not beating

[@aaronlandry3934]

@@nemo-x Except that machines break and wear over time. Even if your brain is made into a “digital copy”, it will still die at some point. Death is a part of life. Best not to run away from him

[@aaronlandry3934]

@@nemo-x Doesn’t matter if it’s a super computer, because they’ll still wear and break eventually. All you can do is prolong the inevitable

[@aaronlandry3934]

@@nemo-x Buddy, somewhere down the line, something will inevitably fail. May be a machine that wears and breaks eventually, maybe a back up file will become corrupted, natural disasters will still happen no matter what also, and so on and so on, but at the end of the day, you will die and you cannot escape death.

[@aspielm759]

“It’s literally in the name. How can anyone mix that up-“ “But Journalists…” “Yeah, of course”

[@juusto7171]

Journalists and Liars are the same thing nowadays

[@aaronlandry3934]

Journalists are just professional Twitter users. Only difference is their “articles” have a few hundred words in them instead of a few hundred characters

[@juusto7171]

facts

[@DanksterPaws]

Ive never seen or heard this confusion tbh. Infact, when people say brain death it’s most likely they’re trying to insult you as brain dead 💀

[@jonbedet]

Yes I was surprised as well that this confusion exists. Also never have seen journalists mixup these words.

[@auheckna]

I have seen many Sakamotos today

[@DanksterPaws]

@@auheckna lots of sakamotos

[@estaworks-3d102]

@@jonbedet it's because it doesn't happen. people aren't that stupid unless you live in america then it's a whole diffrent story

[@twins2936]

@@estaworks-3d102 i dont live in america but it happens lol. People are stupid unless you dont realise because youre with them

[@sohaibaftab446]

Everything about this video and the channel is underrated.

[@nightmare5479]

I have so many questions: 1. What happens if the stem gets damaged but not the cortex? 2. Why can't the heart keep beating indefinitely on the ventilator/pacemaker thingy thereby maintaining oxygen supply indefinitely to other organs after brain death? What happens after 3 days? 3. People who have had near death experiences are just coma/vegetative state patients waking up?

[@sundaragnanasekar2379]

Nice questions! Hope to get answers .

[@pn8746]

As far my knowledge in biology is your first question answer is...paralysis..individual can think normally but can't control his skeletal muscles (now I doubt if his involuntary muscles function normally or what😅😞)

[@ashlin3372]

Well, for your second question, even though the ventilator can be made to supply oxygen indefinitely as far as i know, it's nowhere near efficient due to lungs not working. So every other cells die out slowly due to decrease in oxygen as time pass by. I may be wrong, but that's my explanation 😅

[@Cosmic_Dancer]

Well for the 3rd explanation I think Near death experience can be referred as coma but If the time period extends i think the definition changes. only

[@negentropy9560]

1. Clearly it depends on the entity of the damage. Some vegetative functions (such as breathing) can stop working if vegetative nuclei are damaged. Facial paralysis can occur if somatic nuclei are damaged. 2. Heart and other organs can not indefinitely work without nervous system activity, as its function is to control heart and other organs. 3. I think so.

[@Ascertivus]

I find this morbid, yet fascinating.

[@wholelifeisalie498]

My biggest fear is of seeing my loved one lying dead 😞

[@gosucab944]

I get you. When my grandma died many years ago I was given the choice to go to the morgue to see her a last time. I refused. I wouldn't be able to stand the sight. I didn't want to see her lifeless body. I remember her by who she was and what she did when she was alive.

[@jbhandelman]

I never realized the difference between a coma and brain death. Thanks for explaining.

[@VideoMatoran]

I always thought we don't need to be told that Coma and Brain Death are separate concepts, but something tells me there's a good reason you made this video, and I'm dissapointed in advance.

[@jfast8256]

Misdiagnosis is the reason why. Is it common, well.... yes, but common doesn't exactly mean "most of the time", just common enough to be a factor even if the majority of cases are diagnoses are proper. Good luck convincing a parent to say "Yes, harvest the organs of my son or daughter who is still breathing." "But ma'am, they are brain dead." "And how do you know? The last time I was here you diagnosed my other child and you were wrong." This right here is why the video was made. Not because people don't know the difference between "death" and "coma", but because if you have a child who is unconscious, but breathing, you are going to be VERY HARD to convince that your child is dead and should be diced up for parts for other people who you don't care about. I would never personally try to convince a parent to give up their breathing child so their organs could be harvested. Would I mind mine being harvested? No, and if something ever happens my family will have to deal with the fact that I'm an organ donor. Even though I can be a robot and am pretty heartless, I cannot tell a parent to their face that they need to let their breathing child be dismantled for spare parts. There is no reason for you to be disappointed. You shouldn't be disappointed for people loving their family so much that they take a risk that the doctor has misdiagnosed the death of their child.

[@pallavic7635]

Rip...sanchari Vijay sir

[@chandreshs3558]

His organ donation saved 7 lives 🙂

[@jaisonds1]

After Sanchari Vijay's incident, I got curious to know the difference between these 2 terminologies and hence here I am.

[@INDberlin]

@@jaisonds1 same

[@INDberlin]

@@jaisonds1 i have been searching youtube about brain death for days

[@gabrielrhodes6640]

Brain death is sad and so is a coma, and it crazy how if someone is Brain dead they can use the origins to save so many more lives.

[@ValerioRhys]

"There is no recovery from brain death." Assuming, ofcourse that doctors are able to correctly diagnose that the patient truly is brain dead. There are cases where patients are mistaken to be brain dead only for neural activity and eventually consciousness to resume. The human brain is a very fickle organ.

[@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme]

and doctors are very stupid humans

[@thearmyofiron]

@@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme *some

[@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme]

@@thearmyofiron 90%

[@oscarmedinajuarez396]

@@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme then when you get a disease dont go to the hospital :)

[@Trillion_Dollar_Extreme]

@@oscarmedinajuarez396 I just wrote a billion words on how a hospital has not been taking care of my mom, and they just got deleted

[@sparkle2331]

Seeing this video for 20 seconds straight, and I immediately subscribed! Thank you for the explanation and continue the good job

[@aaronbarragan8339]

I really really loved this video. You’re so good at explaining and you got right to the point making it a short vid. I hope you can make more interesting videos on your free time! :)

[@bavo981]

As someone who works with Comatose patients this was very very very interesting and a super important message to all those who are unaware.

[@elFulberto]

2:26 What a plot twist, this was an organ donation promotion video all along!

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

Brain death is sometimes misdiagnosed. People have awoken from comas that were diagnosed as "brain death" while their families were being asked about organ donation.

[@manjushreekanth4262]

Anybody here after Actor sanchari vijay's case.. ಅವರ ಆತ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಶಾಂತಿ ಸಿಗಲಿ ಅಂಥ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥಿಸೋಣ 🙏 ಒಮ್ ಶಾಂತಿ

[@pradeepam7301]

Yes iam

[@SD-ld5lz]

Yes i am

[@sinchana2935]

Me🕯️

[@pradeepam7301]

@@sinchana2935 me also

[@ksankirthana]

Yes

[@Pain_is_temperory.]

When you figure out this was an ad for organ donation.

[@Doom_Squid_Son]

It lowers the credibility a lot.

[@rickkcir2151]

@@Doom_Squid_Son How? If someone is brain dead then they’re dead, if they’re dead then they don’t need their organs. Don’t see how pointing out the obvious “lowers the credibility” on stating the difference between coma patients and brain dead patients.

[@gosucab944]

@@Doom_Squid_Son If I say "1+1 = 2, This equation was sponsored by X" does that make the equation less credible?

[@felipechujoza9755]

@@gosucab944 This ad is more like "1+1 = 0. This equation was sponsored by modulo 2 arithmetic."

[@ganeshjuliasawitri1091]

I lost someone so dear to me bcs of brain death and ive been thinking about whether its the better option to put off the ventilator on the first day or not… by this video, im sure its the right choice…

[@dr.junior-33]

Sorry for your loss As intensive care physician we usually fully support the patients until they are confirmed with brain death, then there is 2 ways moving forward, either the patient is suitable for organ donation and his family are willing we continue with full support till donation, if not suitable we inform the family and usually stop the organ support i,e the ventilator or if family disagree we dont stop the ventilator but the organs shut down in few days

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

@@dr.junior-33 wouldn't organs keep functioning indefinitely when hooked up?

[@dr.junior-33]

@@TheCaptainSplatter few cases of brain death survive past a week or two even with full support, usually what happens is the patient develops shock then multi organ failure although they are receiving full support Regards

[@Piromysl359]

Short and to the point. That's the kind of videos we need.

[@hrplays8318]

This is really informative. We all should know this fact.

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

I thought it was common sense, most people are stupid.

[@ungabunga3901]

Quick simple and straight to the point

[@thinkoutsidethebox5345]

As far as I know, brain death doesn’t mean the brain’s cells are dead, they just stopped communicating with each other, so the brain doesn’t function, but it’s tissue is still alive

[@federicoorticosa3399]

Well, you know wrong

[@NickDaGamer1998]

@@federicoorticosa3399 He's not entirely wrong. EEG's measure voltage fluctuations coming from neurons in the brain, which is what brain activity is. Brain death just means that there are zero neurons firing and "talking" to each other. If the brain stem dies off with the cortex, no blood can be pumped through without artificial respiration; even if the heart does continue to pump blood it will only do so for a few days. Once the brain does reach a certain point of recieving no blood, and therefore no oxygen, it will start to undergo lysis: the brain liquifies.

[@kirtil5177]

Basically like wiping out the code that makes a computer run

[@thinkoutsidethebox5345]

@@NickDaGamer1998 that lysis you’re talking about would be more appropriate to be called „brain death“. That’s when the cells truly are dead

[@dexchopper]

My Mom got very sick one morning and we took her to emergency. She got worse and worse throughout the morning, the doctor told us it wasn’t looking good. Then after what felt like hours, the doctor came out saying things aren’t good and said she was pretty much brain dead…and just from that term we knew it was over, we lost our beloved Mother. It hurts but she is no longer suffering, just forever asleep, at peace. People should know the differences with these terms to avoid confusion, especially with hoping for their loved one to recover from brain death, no one should go through that, they must know the term.

[@artemis8368]

I m gonna be honest.. I never heard anyone mistaking brain death with coma

[@ConstellationOrion]

In my country (Turkey) so many people thinks that vegetative state and brain death are the same things while coma is known correctly.

[@astrangemed8244]

this video is brutally honest and straightforward and that is a good thing, good video

[@sayednihal]

Big ups to the animation presentation 🙏

[@I_am_Diogenes]

Being one of those who woke up from a two week coma it is interesting to know the condition that landed me there in light of this information . Guess it isnt as bad as I thought I was at the time but it sure means worse now . I am always up for a game of good news/bad news but not in this case . THANKS all the same .

[@cyber_kat4254]

I didn't know people get this confused.

[@vidsshirsath4635]

Heard both the words coma n brain-dead....Bt never knowing d difference....Thnq... very effective explanation 🤗

[@prags9819]

Wow wow....!!! great info and presentation 👌🏻👏

[@EdonSerifi]

I never asked that question. Yet KZbin insisted for 1 week by recomending it EVERY Day!

[@AtlasCho]

How about Coma with 10% of chance of recovery? ~ This happen when my mom rushed into hospital. And the next morning, we got a report that she passed away. But I was hopping for 10% that she would recover from coma. Then later on, she came home here in Philippines from Dubai, placed in the urn ~

[@justaweebeatingpockyalonei3882]

That sucks, I’m sorry. My grandfather died a few months ago(not in a coma, he had Alzheimer’s and was really old) and it hurts

[@TwoWheelWarrior]

Thanks. This has helped me differentiate the people I work with.

[@Raquel-qc8cq]

I live in Portugal, and here we have a very interesting law. People don't choose to give their organs if they die, we are all doners by default. Here, If you don't want to give your organs you have actually to sign a form while you are still alive.

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

Yea, it should be like that everywhere.

[@jackbullandothers3322]

Happend here in Netherlands

[@wickedcabinboy]

That is an extraordinarily compassionate law for those needing organs. I wish it were so in the U.S. Sadly, it is not.

[@gabrielandy9272]

i would not mind donating my organs as long as not homophobic/racist people could not get it, i would never forgive my self if a homophobic/racist people is alive cause of me...

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

​@@gabrielandy9272 Hell yea! Also I much rather have someone who immediately needs my organ/someone fit & healthy vs someone who wouldn't benefit from my organs as much. Like if the other person will die anyways even after getting my organ. There's lots of factors, I just want everything to match up, money, fitness, strength, contribution to society, every single factor should be considered.

[@PacificBish]

This is full of info and very educational! Nice to see this in my recommendations. Though, a kid myself doesn't find it hard to know the difference between coma and brain dead since brain dead is already self explanatory and coma is kinda similar to a long sleep.

[@Henyckma]

Here in Mexico we all know those differences and it's easy to understand, so I think the media in the US missleaded a lot of people since a long time

[@maddymahool3828]

So many Indians. Thanks alot for helping, this is necessary information. Will surely help to make others aware too.

[@mythslife8883]

What could be more miraculous for someone than saving people's life even after your own death. Part of yourbody will still keep on living in this world to make it more beautiful place 😊

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

Too bad your organ is most likely gonna be in some stupid moron.

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

@Lazys The Dank EngineerIncomprehensible, have an awful day.

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer 👍

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer 👍👍

[@KILLRXNOEVIRUS]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer👍👍👍

[@Chillin4030]

im glad you added the ending it made it way less sad

[@hollengrhen1]

I’ve never misunderstood those terms at all. Even when they are used interchangeably. It is very obvious when someone uses the term brain ‘dead’ they mean that the person had died.

[@NimoClancy]

This comment section is a large group of people just opening up about terrible things. Im so sorry for you all, and i hope god blesses you and your families. Stay strong my friends.

[@mokmokovik1256]

both of my parents are doctors and we once talked about this and they basiclly said that when the brain dies, the body simply becomes a good holder for fresh organs and nothing more because what a person is is in the brain, man thats just sad :C

[@daniell.raharitahiana5727]

This was fantastic. I sincerely hope this gets some exposure to hopefully clear up some misconceptions people might have about this subject

[@csongorawot6428]

Reminds me of the story where a young man was declared brain dead by doctors, and they were trying to donate his organs suspiciously relentlessly, when his father showed up with a handhun and protected his son, until he indeed showed signs of life and proceeded to make a full recovery... Moral of the story: despite brain death having 100% mortality rate, you should always make sure that the doctors made the right diagnosis.

[@udukukui]

it is just a story.

[@vulpesvulpes871]

source

[@BornotB-xi6kg]

had absolutely no idea vegetative state was a thing, glad i learned something

[@ileiad]

"Organ donation saves lives." You know, it'd be a good idea to just harvest organs from death row inmates as a sentence.

[@theperson_12]

@Warhammer maybe if they fed the prisoners well they would be healthy

[@negan9196]

I must appreciate the animation and awesome explanation. Now I know a difference! Thank you.

[@thefemalethunderbirdsnerd3214]

“Nobody has ever woken up from brain death.” Trenton McKinley: Are you sure about that?!

[@neerajemanuel7771]

My grandpa's brain was stated dead and after few hours he passed away.

[@thefemalethunderbirdsnerd3214]

@@neerajemanuel7771 oh I’m sorry to hear that sweetie.

[@vanumathi7995]

By seeing this i understood how important Helmet is🙏🙏🙏 good message 👍

[@TuskenRaiderHater]

if i or anyone i knew was brain dead i would immediately pull the plug honestly even vegetative state. i wouldn’t ever want anyone i know or myself to live like that

[@kaleemarie13]

My father had a brain aneurysm when I was 10 and pronounced brain dead 2 days after bringing him to the hospital. The only reason we kept him alive for 4 days after his aneurysm was so that he could save 3 lives through his organ donation

[@allenjaypaspie3628]

@@kaleemarie13 his legacy saves another person ❤️

[@kaladwarakanath5503]

Kalee, what a moving story! So touching! So sorry you lost your father at such a young age! Stay strong.

[@tassadardaris7294]

You... Aren't alive if you are brain dead, you don't experience anything, your mind is gone but your body is not

[@halamadruuid2380]

Don't pull the plug yet, sometimes it might be a wrong diagnosis, they might just have a coma, I would wait for a few days like 5, then donate their organs, before pulling the pluh

[@avinashnew]

Very simple and clear explanation, thank you

[@iluvjdolley]

Thank you so much! I was struggling to understand the difference for class, and now I get it. :)

[@simplyjojorn6684]

This was an exceptionally well thought out informative video. I loved the execution of it!

[@XunnnD-hz4pi]

My brain dead during exam, coma after exam

[@MrCoolJ20]

That might of been the best promotion for organ donation I have ever seen

[@thebirthofcorruption]

I guess I'll be the first to save someone from brain death then🔥

[@zethcader6478]

Good luck, if the brain is truly dead then it cant be healed

[@technicolorbarf6734]

Ight Dr. Frankenstein

[@currentlywaiting1081]

Wish you saved my dad 😆

[@thebirthofcorruption]

I mean, you could still make the body into an ai or something?

[@thebirthofcorruption]

@sunrise Humans are evolving, you can't predict the future

[@ethanblair7351]

this is one of the darkest videos I seen all week even though its mundane and completely normal

[@stalloneandrew9961]

it's not dark, it was ouch

[@ruchithagowda9839]

Who is here after the death of sanchari Vijay sir #rip 😢

[@masti4861]

Who is he? 😕😕

[@user-lw5ph4dq5g]

@@masti4861 who knows

[@aaqibparvezpatel]

Ur explaination is so good Thank u sir

[@PearlieCake]

Im gonna specialize as the doctor who deals with this someday

[@gabrielgoncalves2763]

Talking is easier than actually becoming a doctor.

[@illyk6450]

@@gabrielgoncalves2763 Still, it's good to have dreams. You won't end up doing something like that if you don't want to do it. And that's why I say: go for it. Get an interest, learn, study, work as hard as you can at school and someday it could happen. Don't get discouraged just because it's difficult. Difficult doesn't mean impossible, you know?

[@frehleyscomet8812]

my boyfriends father recently was in a hit and run and after a few days was pronounced brain dead. we donated his organs and he lives on, already, in 5 other people. organ donation was the only thing that gave us some peace during this nightmare. please consider donating life ❤

[@blah__]

0:14 Him: The brain consists of two parts: the cortex anddd... No one: Me: THE VORTEX! Him: The Brain Stem. Me: dang...

[@namratachetia5988]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheAilmam]

I thought they were trying to differentiate between the cerebrum and the cerebellum. Yeah, i forgot there are only 2 parts of the brain, not the component of the brain. Gotta revise my Anatomy lessons again

[@jarskil8862]

Was watching this happily but 0:56 made me burst in tears I hope that everyone would wake up soon as possible 🥺

[@ryuushi26]

I am educated thanks KZbin our education system could never 🙄 Our teachers just put KZbin links anyways instead of making classes

[@MrFunnyHandsInYourPants]

Never heard the two used interchangeably. I already knew what the difference was but this video was informative and I liked the little pictures

[@devanshuawasthi4123]

My brother passed away in 2018 in a bike accident and doctor decalred him brain dead, after 27 days my parents donated his organs to save others life. R.I.P Nivesh Mishra

[@DarcMagikian]

One of my fears is that everyone might think I'm brain dead and bury me but then I come back from coma and stuck underground eaten alive by insects.

[@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575]

you will run out of breath and die before the insects get a chance

[@parththakkar6389]

Great explanation👏👏👏👏

[@gwapaq7155]

This video deserves more views and likes

[@pavangowda6491]

RIP... Sanchari vijay

[@FirstLast-ej6yv]

It's so easy to explain yet ..

[@foxymetroid]

I'd imagine the primary difference is the reason why one's called "brain death" and the other isn't.

[@sephirothjc]

Interestingly, I learned the difference between the two from medical dramas, but this video helped me better understand what causes a coma.

[@iitool]

You failed to cover another very important misconception: Medically induced coma which is a coma bought on by doctors using medication often to reduce the severity of brain damage after a traumatic event.

[@deadnamelol4081]

I didn't search for this but I'm glade I saw it!

[@darrenglick100]

Organ Donation Saves Lives!

[@petrosk7789]

Very good video with good meaning

[@basavanagowdaraju8815]

If brain dead,is there any option to transplant other brain or not give accurate answer

[@Bblxmyg]

there’s no such thing as brain transplant

[@tassadardaris7294]

You are the brain... If brain dies you die, if brain transplanted then it's another person

[@miraiworldlaziestperson]

The theory is it may or may not...because brain and consciousness are entirely different thing...but yeah brain transplant currently impossible for now

[@jagdish8908]

That's was a awesome quick video explanation, thanks for making it.