Medical Technology Death

How The Rise Of Medical Technology Is Worsening Death

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20171101.612681/

Unlike the polio victims, whose young and otherwise healthy bodies were often able to spring back to life after their illness had passed, the frail elderly and terminally ill are much less likely...

Technology promises to change the meaning of death

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/08/19/organex-yale-death-definition-medical-disparities/

As Harvard bioethicist Robert Truog suggests, what we formally call “ death” consists “more of a moral judgment than a biological fact.” In other words, brain death is …

Medical devices have caused more than 80,000 deaths …

https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/25/medical-devices-pain-other-conditions-more-than-80000-deaths-since-2008/

The media partners found that, across all types of medical devices, more than 1.7 million injuries and nearly 83,000 deaths were reported to the FDA over the last …

Death By A Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health …

https://khn.org/news/death-by-a-thousand-clicks/

Medical Technology Makes 'Time of Death' Harder to …

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/medical-technology-makes-time-of-death-harder-to-pinpoint/386968/

The line between life and death is best defined not by machines, but by patients’ beliefs about what kind of life gives them …

The Immortalists - can science defeat death? - BBC …

https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/the-immortalists-can-science-defeat-death/

Theologians and religious believers have long had a ready-made answer: death is simply a transition from this stage to the next in a cosmic proscenium. In the religious worldview death needs no …

How technology has changed the definition of death - Vox

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/25/12639110/what-is-death-definition-technology

Currently the measurement of death is a much more complicated one that involves a more industrialized and less religious view of the body: When mechanical and electrical activity ceases (the...

Tragic Cases: Technology Creates a New Way to Die

https://www.livescience.com/42385-brain-death-technology.html

Brain death occurs when the entire brain is damaged to the extent that there is no remaining brain activity — no reflexes, no electrical activity, no blood flow. It is irreversible, and when...

12 Worst Medical Technology Dangers - Medscape

https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/tech-dangers

This mistake can cause death, usually by embolus or sepsis. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged making connectors and adaptors uniform, so that built-in incompatibility will...

Medical Technology Advances - Past 50 Years | UCLA …

https://medschool.ucla.edu/blog/medical-technology-advances-past-50-years

Practicing Medicine in the 1960s Fifty years ago, the leading cause of death in the United States was heart disease, as it is today, but the death rate was nearly three …