clinical death
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cessation of blood circulation and breathing
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It is catalogued under topics including Intensive care medicine, Medical aspects of death and Medical law.
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- biological process
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- death
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Encyclopedic overview
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and of many other organisms. It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest. The term is also sometimes used in resuscitation research.
Stopped blood circulation has historically proven irreversible in most cases. Prior to the invention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, epinephrine injection, and other treatments in the 20th century, the absence of blood circulation (and vital functions related to blood circulation) was historically considered the official definition of death. With the advent of these strategies, cardiac arrest came to be called clinical death rather than simply death, to reflect the possibility of post-arrest resuscitation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “clinical death” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.