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Someone who has brainstem death cannot have any form of bodily response; it is mostly their heart that is beating.

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The joint guidelines indicate that "the brain death or death by neurologic criteria evaluation is, first and foremost, based on clinical assessment for permanent coma, absence of brainstem ...

Patients who are declared brain dead are legally and clinically dead — they are not simply in a coma or a persistent vegetative state.

TRIBUTES have poured in following the death of former Fulham keeper Corrin Brooks-Meade. The stopper passed away on April 5 aged 37 after spending a month in a coma.

Coma is distinguished from brain death by the presence of brain stem responses, spontaneous breathing or non-purposeful motor responses.