Brain death survivors prove it’s a medical fallacy

Dr. John B Shea, Retired Diagnostic Radiologist and Royal College of Canada Fellow, says: “A diagnosis of death by neurological criteria is a theory, not a scientific fact”. He was referring to so-called “brain death,” a medical concept invented in 1968 by Harvard Medical School to allow the recovery of vital organs from still-living patients.

Dr. Paul A Byrne, neonatologist and pediatrician, says: “To be suitable for transplantation, (heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and pancreas) must be removed from the donor before respiration and circulation cease. Otherwise, these organs are not suitable, as damage to the organs occurs in a short period of time – time after the blood flow with oxygen stops. “

Friends … there is growing evidence that “brain death” is a medical fallacy, which cannot be accurately diagnosed. There is a growing number of patients who were declared “brain dead”, only to revive and live spontaneously. Here are some real cases of survivors:

• Zach Dunlap, a 21-year-old Oklahoma man, was “feeling pretty good” four months after he was diagnosed with “brain death.” Zach suffered serious brain injuries in a quad bike accident in Texas in 2007. He was declared “brain dead” and was prepared for organ donation. But minutes before the surgery began, he spontaneously revived when a concerned friend scratched his foot. Later, Zach said on a TV show that he heard doctors declare him dead, but that there was nothing he could do about it.
• Steven thorpeA 17-year-old from Warwickshire was declared “brain dead” by four doctors in 2008, but his parents did not give up and pressed another opinion from an independent GP and neurosurgeon. Steven made an unexpected recovery and left the hospital alive seven weeks later. He had suffered serious head injuries during a major collision between a car in which he was traveling and a runaway horse.
• Rae KupferschmidtA 65-year-old Minnesota woman suffered a massive brain hemorrhage in 2008 and was diagnosed by doctors as “brain dead.” They took her home to die and her family began making funeral arrangements. When Rae spontaneously sucked on an ice cube offered to her by her daughter, it was discovered that she was alive. Later he walked.
• Glory CrossA 56-year-old woman from the Northern Territory, she was declared “brain dead” in 2011 and was expected to “die” within 48 hours. A doctor, a social worker and a ‘patient advocate’ urged her husband to remove the ventilator and let her ‘die’. But he refused and 3 days later, Gloria revived, woke up from a coma and was moving around the hospital in a wheelchair.

Clearly, these survivor cases demonstrate that “brain death” is a highly questionable concept that is putting lives at risk.