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Fighting for Jahi McMath’s Life: “Brain Dead” Term Too Loosely Used
LifeNews.com … medical assistance. In other words, they want to allow killing for organs and they believe that undermining the public’s belief in “brain death” can help them achieve that end. Under the law, brain dead is “dead” when it connotes death by … |
Guardian ExpressBrain Death: Means No Recovery, Learn to Let GoGuardian ExpressBrain death means there is no possibility of recovery and that it is time to learn to let a loved one go. When severe trauma and injury occur to the brain, sometimes irrever…
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)Scientists looking closer at what happens when body diesABC15.com (KNXV-TV)And brain death – when the brain irreversibly ceases function — is also proving less open and shut. For decades, doctors have recorded cases where people imm…
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Bioethicist: Girl’s tragic case can’t change reality of brain death
NBCNews.com Who decides when to pull the plug when a person is pronounced brain dead? The answer to that question is, tragically, being hotly debated in Oakland, Calif., as a result of an elective surgery gone horribly wrong. Thirteen-year-old Jahi McMath went to … California hospital says it will keep teen declared brain dead on life supportFox News Girl,13, brain dead after tonsil surgery to stay on life supportDigitalJournal.com Family holds prayer vigil for Oakland girl on life supportabc7news.com fox13now.com –myfox8.com all 101 news articles » |
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Bioethicist: Parents should face the truth — brain dead is dead
NBCNews.com In fact, due to the strict tests and procedures that have to be followed to determine brain death, it is probably even more error-free than pronouncing someone dead due to cardiac failure. Brain death is not a coma. People wake up from comas—they … |
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Girl,13, brain dead after tonsil surgery to stay on life support
DigitalJournal.com S. Andrew Josephson, a neurologist and medical director of inpatient neurology at UC San Francisco, told the Oakland Tribune that brain death is a specific diagnosis, given by two doctors, that is “legally, morally and ethically equivalent to death.”. |
Scientists looking closer at what happens when body diesNewsNet5.comAnd brain death – when the brain irreversibly ceases function — is also proving less open and shut. For decades, doctors have recorded cases where people immersed in very cold water h…
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California hospital says it will keep teen declared brain dead on life support
Fox News Medical ethicists told the station on Tuesday that brain death means “legally dead,” and no one is required to keep a dead body on a ventilator. American Academy of Neurology guidelines require only one bedside exam to determine whether or not a … |
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Heartbreaking: Girl Declared Brain Dead After Tonsil Surgery Will Be Taken Off …
WCBM Under California law, legal brain death must be declared by two separate doctors performing two separate sets of tests at least 3 hours apart. McMath had gone to Children’s Hospital Oakland on December 9 to have her tonsils removed to cure a sleep … |
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Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery will be taken off life support
Fox News Under California law, legal brain death must be declared by two separate doctors performing two separate sets of tests at least 3 hours apart. McMath had gone to Children’s Hospital Oakland on December 9 to have her tonsils removed to cure a sleep … |