01-03-2023, 11:14 AM
(01-03-2023, 11:08 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Clinically dead is not heart stoppage, it is lack of brain activity. I'm not downplaying his injury, but I am also optimistic since he got immediate care from physicians on the field.
I was going to say that this is wrong, but it appears that there is plenty of confusion around "clinically dead". For a long time, clinical death was considered that stoppage of heart activity and cessation of breathing. Then, some people started calling it cessation of brain activity. Now, it appears that we have "circulatory death" and "brain death". For what it's worth, the top results for clinical death reference stoppage of heart activity and cessation of breathing.