Comments on: Top hospitals typically disregard brain-death guidelines

By: Regret

Regret — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:03:01 +0000

Now more than ever, there is great push to kill for organs. Go to http://www.myfoxny.com and search for movie clip using words: organ donation controversy. This young man did NOT have strokes. Get the picture? The organ transplantation and everything derived from it has been based on lies. “Brain death” and it’s definition was CREATED for transplantation and criteria for pronouncing brain death has been changed at least 30 times since making it easier and easier to pronounce. Now, much push has been to kill the young by DCD. The patients and family are in the dark to all of what is going on. And through the family’s trust, their loved one is killed for someone else’s profit and other gains. Shame on the medical field for knowing and not protecting, shame on the transplantation organizations for valuing money over an innocent injured persons life. Shame on the US government for allowing and even encouraging. This young man would have lived but the evil powers made sure he would not. I know the truth.

By: RonaldCoriasso

RonaldCoriasso — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:03:03 +0000

Brain hypothermia is a viable soluton to brain death.

By: Liz Kamenar

Liz Kamenar — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:08:27 +0000

As a Neurologist, I made detailed outlines for Brain Death criteria available for the ICU but they weren’t followed even by my own colleagues. The criteria are quite complex and sometimes difficult to do. I was pressured into not “going by the book” by the Organ Procurement Team. They thought I was working against them. They were more concerned about procuring good organs rather than meeting the criteria for Brain Death–especially the repeat testing in 24 hours gave them a lot of angst. Also, if criteria were not met, they nonetheless expected a declaration of Brain Death and expected me to overlook those minor details. They (the Organ Procurers) also had procedures and lab work done, like a bronchoscopy, on the patient to evaluate suitability of organs before the patient was legally dead. The other weird thing, was that the average clinician would still document the “time of death” when the patient was taken off the respirator even though the patient was declared “Brain Dead” earlier and I had signed the Death Certificate. As a Neurologist I think the whole clinical concept of “Brain Death” is quite messy.

By: Howard Long

Howard Long — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:23:42 +0000

Dr. Orient should bring out her novel,
“Neomorphs” again!