My wife was declared as having met with 'brain death criteria' , less than 6 hours following her ...
My wife was declared as having met with 'brain death criteria' , less than 6 hours following her transfer from Kirkland Lake to Sudbury, while under the care of Drs. Sauve and Adegbite. Withholding life sustaining treatment from an “undiagnosed” patient with concurrent hyperglycemia, hypokalemia and electrolyte abnormalities in combination with a severely paralysed motor function and who is under the influence of sedative hypnotic and tranquilizing agents is of questionable legality. For the record, many conditions may falsely mimic brainstem death clinically upon examination, but without excluding them you will KILL a person by homicide, or criminal negligence, despite the reversibility of brain damage. Recognition of fulminant GBS is important to prevent inappropriate declaration of brain death or withdrawal of life support in the face of potentially reversible causes. http://www.freewebs.com/medical_secre...