Instead of death being declared because the brain has stopped functioning, in DCD, death is declared after circulation ceases and the heart stops beating. | Miguel Porlan for Vox
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Emily Hoffman was walking home from lunch in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in February 2023, when a driver turning left struck her on the crosswalk.
Hoffman was 34. By the time paramedics arrived on the scene, she had gone into a traumatic cardiac a...
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