1994, March 11, Donna Bergen, On Brain Death, Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days; and which would be so today, if nature had her way, that is, if the machines were turned off ... .
September 15, In three animals, apneic episodes in the second minute of hypoxia necessitated termination of the hypoxic challenge.
