Annelise Camp is scheduled to undergo brain death testing — over her family’s objections — today at 9AM CST.
“Because of the lack of high-quality evidence on the subject,” the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) brain death guideline was based, not on science, but on 3 rounds of anonymous voting.
Hmm…We’ve been declaring people to be “brain dead” for nearly 60 years…wouldn’t you think there’d be some high quality evidence for it by now?
In the absence of evidence, the AAN guideline was based on the shared biases of a panel of experts which was screened to exclude anyone who might disagree. About 30% of these experts reported a specific conflict of interest with the transplant industry.
The brain death examination consists of a series of bedside tests, because the guideline states that all ancillary tests (EEG, brain blood flow studies, brain scans) have shortcomings, and are not 100% sensitive and specific for brain death.
First, the patient is checked for unresponsiveness, because doctors have no tests for inward awareness: we can only test whether people are able and willing to respond, which is not the same thing. This is not really a fair test because many brain-injured people have cord compression and are unable to respond. Also, a recent NEJM article found covert consciousness with advanced testing in 25% of people who doctors believed to be unconscious.
Second, there should be no motion after a painful stimulus. But certain motions (lifting a limb off the bed, reaching with both hands toward the throat, opening eyes when the nipples are brushed) are allowed as “reflexes.” The guideline admits that it can be difficult to distinguish between volitional and reflex movements, and actually advises asking a friend if you are in doubt, showing the subjective nature of this assessment.
Third, whereas the legal definition of brain death requires the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, the brain death guideline just checks a few brain stem reflexes. The guideline also explicitly states that brain death may be declared in the presence of ongoing brain function, in defiance of the law in most states.
Fourth, the patient is disconnected from their ventilator and observed for breathing. The guideline states that parameters for this test are ARBITRARY because there is no scientific data to justify the parameters recommended by the guideline.
So, today for Annelise, (and daily for many other patients around the world) life and death decisions will be made on the basis of an unverified and arbitrary exam for which there is no high-quality evidence.
Brain death is based on pseudoscience. It is an ethical choice masquerading as a medical fact.
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This is happening more and more — and in the vast majority of situations it starts with educators privately — and even sometimes innocently — communicating with students.
Next session I will file — and we should pass — a bill prohibiting any district employees from engaging in private communications with students through text messaging, personal emails, social media or other unofficial channels. Each and every communication between students and educators should only occur through official district platforms that parents and other school personnel have access to monitor in real-time.
Any employee who disregards the law should not only be terminated immediately for cause, stripped of state teacher certifications and placed on the “Do Not Hire” Registry, but they should also face criminal penalties as well.
There is no reason for students to be communicating directly with teachers, coaches or other personnel outside of the classroom and off-campus — and if there ever is, then parents must be included. Period. Full stop. #txlege
This is a really cool article about the secret Signal networks that nonprofits use - @jimmy_rustlin , @astrarce , @bitchuneedsoap are all mentioned here as "Digital Avengers."
Read the latest from @AsraNomani . Proud to have helped out with some of the research here!
John Bolton spent 2024 going on every cable show in America smearing President Trump as a criminal for retaining classified documents.
Today he pled guilty to doing exactly what he falsely accused President Trump of.
The irony is unreal!
@SenThomTillis@SenatorCollins Senator Tillis,
34,000 dead voters are on the voter rolls in North Carolina.
What will it take for you to support the SAVE America Act to secure our elections?
🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?
He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.
The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:
"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."
That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.
And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.
I have the receipts.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Annelise Camp is fighting for her life and deserves a medical team that will fight just as hard. I'm calling on Texas Children’s to prioritize the treatment her family is seeking or allow adequate time to transfer her to a hospital that will. Will Memorial Hermann do the right thing and accept Annelise as a patient?
I am closely monitoring this case and will act to protect this child and honor her parents' efforts to save her.
🚨 so let me get this straight..
a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote has 80% public support..
it passed the House..
it was structured to bypass the 60-vote filibuster by attaching to reconciliation..
and it still died 48-50..
because four Republicans voted with every single Democrat..
Thom Tillis.. Lisa Murkowski.. Mitch McConnell.. Susan Collins..
and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..
this is the third time..
same four names.. same 48-50 margin.. same result.. different date..
you don't get identical defectors across three separate votes by accident..
you get it when the outcome is the plan..
a bill with 80% public support cannot pass a Republican-controlled Senate because the same four Republicans kill it on schedule.. every time.. while telling their voters they support election security..
the uniparty isn't a conspiracy theory anymore..
it's a voting record.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨
Organ procurement from “brain dead” patients is the most lucrative revenue source a hospital has.
Perhaps this is why @TexasChildrens is in such a hurry to declare a 2 year old child with a less than 2 week old injury brain dead?
@horn_chery66499 Again, I am so sorry for you as a grandparent having to go through this.
Here’s my video explaining what the families of organ donors are never told:
https://t.co/kICBRdTdrO
I’m truly angry that our Republican Senate majority is incapable &/or unwilling to pass the SAVE America Act.
So, I’m going to turn my anger into organized action.
See you this SATURDAY, Arizona!
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The hunger strike HOAX was actually just Delaney Hall detainees trading nutritious meals for Honey Buns and Hot Cheetos.
It’s time for sanctuary politicians to drop the political theater and work with us to get criminal illegal aliens OUT of our communities.
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife Ashley are under fire after choosing to end their pregnancy after prenatal testing showed a 95% chance their unborn son had Down syndrome