Hmmm.....Who Said I was Dead?
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A petrified organ donor came back to life, “thrashing around” and “crying visibly” on the operating room table of a Kentucky hospital as surgeons prepared to harvest his body parts.
Thomas “T.J.” Hoover was declared brain-dead after he was taken to Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Richmond, Ky., in October 2021 following a drug overdose.
But as doctors went to test his heart health for transplantation, Hoover reportedly appeared very much alive, according to the patient’s sister and former Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA) employees in the room.
“He was moving around … thrashing around on the bed,” Natasha Miller told NPR.
Looks like this happened three years ago. Not sure why it is just making news. Maybe a lawsuit filed?
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@taiwan_girl said in Hmmm.....Who Said I was Dead?:
Everyone here who has participated in giving "anesthesia" for organ harvest raise your hand.
Ok, lemme 'splain this.
The absolute FIRST thing you do when you do one of these cases is give the "dead" person a huge dose of muscle relaxant. I'm talking about twice the normal dose - you paralyze the hell out of them, and you don't worry about reversing it because, well they're DEAD. Then your job is to maintain cardiovascular stability so that organs don't get damaged - you treat them like any other anesthetic.
At least until they stop the heart and thank you for your help and you can go home.
Who is "Natalie Miller?"
“The donor had woken up during his procedure that morning for a cardiac catheterization. And he was thrashing around on the table,”
Ah, so he WASN'T on the operating table when the thrashing occurred. He was in the cath lab. That's completely different, He never made it to the OR.
Thrashing around on the table of the cath lab doesn't mean "alive." I wonder what if what they saw was all lower-brain reflexes.
If that happened, and I have little doubt that it did, the next thing would be to repeat the EEG and see if there's any cortical activity.
All that said, it all sounds pretty sloppy.
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