It's not a big deal Kai. This can be easily solvable. Tim made a claim, so we give him the benefit of the doubt and we wait until he brings studies that show what he claims is true. If he can't we don't believe it, but you must be open to be possibility that he has those studies.
¿So you aren't going to provide evidence for your claims (or Dr. Fenwick claims)? Okey, I can respect that, but I find it strange you expect people to believe you despite the fact that you don't provide evidence. It's akin to certain people substaining ideas on claims made by famour physicists, but then refuse to provide support for said claims. I hope you reconsider your stand on this.
I respect medical orthodoxy, but I find that sometimes things are assumed rather than proven. Like in the rat with the brain surge study, nobody seem to be expecting such a thing to happen, which seems to imply we don't have the whole cardiac arrest issue studied as profoundly as we would wish.
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This is not a claim, it's a medical fact that the brainstem does not function after cardiac arrest. How can we be sure of this ?? Read the passage below, it tells you what the brainstem does and is responsible for :
brainstem, area at the base of the
brain that lies between the deep structures of the cerebral hemispheres and the cervical
spinal cord. It is divided into three sections:
midbrain (mesencephalon),
pons (metencephalon), and
medulla oblongata (myelencephalon). The brainstem houses many of the control centres for vital body functions, such as swallowing, breathing, and vasomotor control. All of the
cranial nerve nuclei, except those associated with olfaction and vision, are located in the brainstem, providing motor and sensory function to structures of the cranium, including the facial muscles, tongue, pharynx, and larynx, as well as supplying the senses of taste, equilibrium, and hearing. The brainstem also has nuclei important for sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic functions. All efferent and afferent pathways between the
cerebrum and
cerebellum course through the brainstem, and many of them decussate, or cross, within this structure. Because of the important neural structures concentrated in this small portion of the nervous system, even very small lesions of the brainstem may have profound effects. Disorders involving the brainstem include trauma,
tumours,
strokes, infections, and
demyelination (
multiple sclerosis). Complete loss of brainstem function is regarded by some experts as equivalent to
brain death
Have you read that, Master Wu ? Did you read the word SWALLOWING ....is a function of the brainstem
Immediately after a person falls to the floor after cardiac arrest, the doctors can insert a tube down the patients throat AND THE PATIENT DOES NOT
GAG. His swallowing reflex is ABSENT and this is why we can say that the brain stem is not functioning at that time. It doesn't mean that function won't return but it does mean it is temporarily down. Are you going to call bullshit on me ? This is fact
Now, I've spent half an hour rooting around trying to find a paper that might be suitable to show you in a simple manner. They don't and can't do experiments on human brainstems just like that. Animals have been used instead which I don't particularly like but I will continue to search for that kind of experiment.