Talk:Brain stem death

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Oppose merger. It seems this article describes a condition that is different than brain death. Brain death refers to actual death of the brain stem, whereas brain-stem death as described in this article seems to refer to a diagnosis whereby if certain functionality is absent, the brain-stem can be presumed to be dead. 69.140.164.142 05:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs to attribute sources

This article has a bunch of information, and it has a bunch of references. But there are no citations within the text pointing to the references.

Also, some of the language used in this article is emotionally loaded ("unfortunate", etc.). Mbarbier (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Serious unrepresentative bias

This article was originally excessively argumentative and expressed a minority viewpoint as the consensus of the profession. It urgently needed complete revision by a competent neurologist, with the minority viewpoint given space proportional to the rather limited support it enjoys amongst those who understand these matters. As it stood it was an example of everything that is wrong with Wikipedia. I have edited extensively but am not qualified to do more than eliminate the most obvious bias towards views stemming essentially from a rejection of all neurological rather than cardiac definitions of death. Tharyps the Molossian (talk) 22:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)