The apnea brain death test should be discontinued. The huge financial profits in the transplant industry drive the push to declare patients ‘brain dead’ to harvest organs.
Defund and Tax organ transplants!
Take away the profit motivations!
Doctors want to perform a brain death exam on Annelise Camp. Part of this exam is the apnea test, in which Annelise will be disconnected from her ventilator for ten minutes or more and observed for spontaneous breathing.
The apnea test, part of the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) brain death examination, can increase brain damage and entails significant risks.
The apnea test is unverified, and even the AAN Guideline states that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the recommended parameters of the apnea test.
In describing the parameters for the apnea test, the Guideline states: “Selection of targets for this challenge is arbitrary because no scientific data demonstrate specific PaCO2 above which medullary chemoreceptors would prompt respiration if they were functional.”
Dr. Alan Shewmon has published multiple cases of patients who failed to breathe during their apnea tests, but then began breathing after their support was withdrawn. Thus, the apnea test does not reliably achieve its goals.
In addition to being scientifically unverified, the apnea test is risky for a patient not yet known to be brain dead.
The Guideline lists the following risks of the apnea test: hypoxemia, hypotension, arrhythmias, pneumothorax, and hemodynamic compromise with cardiovascular collapse requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
These types of complications are extremely detrimental for a neurologically injured patient with tenuous cerebral blood flow, and can cause further brain damage.
Incredibly, despite these risks, the Guideline states, “clinicians do not need to obtain informed consent,” for the apnea test except as required by local jurisdictions.
The apnea test has no benefit for the patient, does not accomplish its purpose, and can only cause harm —including brain damage and death. No patient with a neurological injury should have to undergo this unethical test.
Vance says his wife decided she wanted more kids after Charlie Kirk assassinated
'Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only 2 kids with Charlie'
'Something changed for Usha, and not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our 4th child'
Attorney General Paxton, you need to be aware that the way doctors diagnose brain death does not comply with the law under the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA).
The UDDA requires the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain including the brain stem.
The American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) brain death diagnosis guideline explicitly allows brain death to be declared in the ongoing presence of brain function.
Because the AAN was aware that their guideline didn’t comply with the law, they petitioned the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to change the UDDA to make it comply with their guideline.
I was an observer to the Uniform Law Commission as they met to discuss revising the UDDA. At their annual meeting in Hawaii in 2023, I remember one lawyer wondering why they were being asked to change the law in order to accommodate doctors who were not complying with it? His suggestion was that doctors should be required to follow the law.
The ULC could not reach consensus and tabled their efforts to change the UDDA in September 2023.
Thus, doctors are continuing to diagnose people with continuing brain function as being “dead.”
Dr. Michael Nair-Collins sums it up this way: “People who are not dead under the law that defines death should not be declared dead. There is no compelling reason to continue the practice of declaring legally living persons to be dead.”
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@Noname60639560@KenPaxtonTX@MaryBowdenMD It’s the parents decision, not the decision of a hospital that stands to gain millions from multiple organ harvesting of a two-year-old.
NEW REPORT: Wisconsin's official voter database now credits 3,379,178 people with voting in Nov 2020.
Ballots cast: 3,308,331.
70,847 MORE voters than ballots. The election was decided by 20,682.
Look on page 2 of how the total ballots cast number keeps changing over time, all for the SAME exact election!!
Five page report at link, first 2 pages shown below.
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Thank you to Steve Hufton @nogabapentin4u for running the data. @FSociety_1942@ZarkFiles@ZoomWalter@EmeraldRobinson@honestpollster
Transfer this child to a hospital that will help her recover. Obviously @TexasChildrens and CEO Debra Zukin do not believe in the miracle of each individual life or in the primacy of parental rights. This hospital prioritizes finances over healing those less than perfect. @USCCB
CEO of @TexasChildrens Debra Sukin is legally battling family of 2 year old Annelise, on life-support following near drowning less than 2 weeks ago. The family wants more time- hospital is refusing and brain death test will happen soon against family’s wishes. If test is positive, TCH will remove life support.
I have refrained from talking about Henry Nowak so far because I was too angry. I remain too angry.
I'm angry at the scumbag who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death. Who drove a blade into the back of his legs to stop him from running, then finished him by skewering him through the chest with an 8-inch blade. All while that poor boy tried desperately to escape.
I'm angry that the same scumbag then cried "racism" to cover his tracks, claiming self-defence after pursuing and butchering an innocent boy who just wanted to get home.
I'm angry at the parents who tried to hide the murder weapon and shield their killer son from justice, putting blood loyalty above any sense of right and wrong.
I'm angry at the police who handcuffed a bleeding teenager while he cried "I'm dying" and "I can't breathe," and let him bleed out in the street. All because his attacker cried racism.
I'm angry at the judge who has introduced manslaughter as an alternative verdict before the jury even had a chance to decide. Robbing Henry's family of the proper verdict on what was clearly cold-blooded murder.
I'm angry at a nation that grants religious exemptions so minorities can carry deadly blades in public while locking up natives for far less. A nation that has opened the floodgates to migrants who want us dead and now watches its own young bleed out in the name of "diversity."
I'm angry that we've allowed it to happen.
I'm angry.
Stop changing clocks = GOOD. Permanent Daylight Saving time = BAD. It was tried in 1974 as an experiment and was so unpopular Congress cancelled the experiment before it was over. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Permanent Standard Time (my HB119) is the healthier, more geographically appropriate choice. And it's already federally approved. @SaveStandard@SupportStandard
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin confirms that sulfur dioxide is being released into the atmosphere for geoengineering experiments.
The EPA is now demanding answers from the unregulated startup behind it, highlighting real health and environmental risks.
It’s no longer a theory.
@larissaphillip There are so many ways public schools fail parents & students: children being indoctrinated against their parents’ values; students required to use online computers despite evidence that books &handwriting notes are better, problematic peers, etc.
Homeschooling = parental rights.
Oh, St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so prompt, so strong, before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh, St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers.
Oh, St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while he reposes near your heart. Press him in my name and kiss his fine head for me and ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.
St. Joseph, patron of departing souls - pray for us. Amen.
I am a democratically elected Member of the European Parliament. I represent the European Union. You will pay for calling me a hate-mongering agitator. I will patiently wait until the British cast you onto the ash heap of history. Then I will come to defend my honor, and the honor of my voters, in court. I will not forget.
RFK Jr: "The HEP-B VACCINE was NEVER meant for BABIES!"
"It was created for HIGH-RISK ADULTS: drug users & prostitutes. Adults REFUSED IT. Merck lost $ MILLIONS."
"CDC bailed out Merck by mandating HEP-B SHOT for ALL NEWBORNS."
@NelwynToes@EricaRN4USA@Pontifex What makes you say she is in a sedevacantist group? She’s clearly referencing Pope Leo XIV here as the legitimate pope.
Now that I know that Arctic Frost was the deep state’s way of referencing Donald Trump, I am going to buy an Arctic Frost citrus tree for my children’s Texas backyard. America First — MAGA.😊
“ORANGE MAN BAD”—BAKED INTO THE NAME?
@JeffClarkUS BLASTS “Arctic Frost” as a political hit job from the start—saying even the codename was a not-so-subtle dig at Trump. His verdict: this wasn’t justice… it was a weaponized operation to take him down.
It appears that a historic deal is within reach, and it will hold if President Trump is willing to enforce the restrictions he’s placed on Israel.
This post indicates a good start—but it must be followed by actually limiting U.S. military aide to Israel.
Our president @molmccann is starting her little ones young! She was out with her toddler and twin boys doing door-to-door yesterday to support a local candidate in Dallas, Texas. Phyllis Schlafly would be proud.