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Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures.
She suffered a suspected pulmonary embolism and was declared brain dead. Because she was pregnant, doctors at a Texas hospital kept her body on a ventilator in the intensive care unit despite the determination of brain death. Muñoz's husband entered a legal battle to have her removed from organ support.
When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors refused the request of her parents (Joseph and Julia Quinlan) to disconnect Karen's ventilator, her parents filed suit to get her disconnected.
Man, 36, Declared Brain Dead Details 'Grueling' Recovery from Locked-In Syndrome: 'I’m Still In Here' (Exclusive) Vanessa Etienne November 6, 2024 at 12:14 PM
When mechanical ventilation is used to support the body of a brain-dead organ donor pending a transplant into an organ recipient, the donor's date of death is listed as the date that brain death was diagnosed. [27]
A boy dies at age 12 after living a lifetime with highly unusual medical care in a sterile environment. Jahi McMath case: United States California: 2013 A teenage girl is declared brain-dead and her family wishes to keep her body on mechanical ventilation perpetually.
Scientists have managed to make death even scarier. According to a team of scientists in New York, the human brain is still very active after death, which means there's a chance you could actually ...
Without special treatment after circulation is restarted, full recovery of the brain after more than 3 minutes of clinical death at normal body temperature is rare. [6] [7] Usually brain damage or later brain death results after longer intervals of clinical death even if the heart is restarted and blood circulation is successfully restored ...