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Susan Michelle Rollin Torres (November 23, 1978 – August 3, 2005) was an American woman known for giving birth to a baby girl while brain dead and on a life support machine. [ 1 ] Torres had a stroke on May 7, 2005, as a consequence of an undiagnosed melanoma ( skin cancer ).
Maternal somatic support after brain death occurs when a brain dead patient is pregnant and their body is kept alive to deliver a fetus. It occurs very rarely internationally. Even among brain dead patients, in a U.S. study of 252 brain dead patients from 1990–96, only 5 (2.8%) cases involved pregnant women between 15 and 45 years of age. [1]
The main differences lie in the state of the mother and fetus and the mechanism of delivery: in the event of natural, live childbirth, the mother's contractions thin and widen the cervix to expel the infant from the womb; in a case of coffin birth, built-up gas pressure within the putrefied body of a pregnant woman pushes the dead fetus from ...
DALLAS (AP) - The husband of a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman on Tuesday sued the hospital keeping her on life support, saying doctors are doing so against her and her family's wishes. The ...
A brain-dead 21-year-old mother is being kept alive by machines to give her unborn 6-month-old child a chance to survive Smiling pregnant woman with braces, central to a debate about life support ...
Amniotic fluid normally enters the mother’s bloodstream during birth but allergic reactions only occur in 2.5 for every 100,000 births or 1 in 40,000 in the United States.
The cause of her condition was speculated to be a pulmonary embolism. At the hospital it was also established that she was 14 weeks pregnant. [2] According to the hospital's lawyers, Marlise had been brain dead since November 28. [1] [2] In Texas, a person who is brain dead is considered legally dead. [2]
In women facing death during obstructed labor, panic or despair can drive them to take desperate remedies. There are about twenty cases of suicide or suicide attempts. [31] The suicidal motive is not depression or shame, but unbearable pain and despair. The methods – throwing themselves out of the window, hanging or drowning – show the ...