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When a patient is brain dead or no longer conscious the decision to initiate life support falls on the hands of the surrogates family or relatives.
Brain dead patients on life support. In this situation the patient or familys wishes are not taken into consideration. This is regulated at the state level but most states follow similar protocol. List of 8 main pros and cons of life support.
The hospital ethics committee can make a decision to withdraw ventilator support if the patient is found to be brain dead. If a patient is on life support. New york law for instance allows for limited reasonable accommodations such as the continuation of life support for a limited time in the.
Concepts matter in doing the right thing in medicine. How do doctors determine that a patient is brain dead. Can one turn off the life support of a brain dead person.
Jun 24 2015 jun 5 2015 by crystal ayres. March 2018 thirteen year old trenton mckinley of alabama recovered and is doing well after doctors pronounced him brain dead and his organs were matched to five children who needed them never mind the fact that he needed them himself. Most of the time the decision to put someone on life support revolves around the idea that a patient.
Otherwise hospitals generally are not legally obligated to keep patients who are declared brain dead on life support. This could not be more obvious then the utter confusion on display over the concepts of brain death and life support technology that has resulted in two dead people being kept on artificial life support in california and texas. April 25 2016 medicine.
A formal brain death evaluation takes about 20 minutes tawil says. Real science radios list of brain dead patients whove recovered tells shows that doctors and hospitals are sometimes dead wrong.
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