Posted on 06/01/2021 5:24:13 PM PDT by Marchmain
Most people become organ donors assuming their organs will be removed after they have died and shared with someone who needs healthy organs.
But a case study published in the American Journal of Case Reports: Pronounced dead twice: What should an attending physician do in between? concerns a homicide death of a 39-year-old woman that was caused by Acute Fentanyl toxicity due to a Fentanyl injection in the hospital.
The woman was being prepared as an organ donor. She was pronounced dead based on cardiac death. A minute after being pronounced dead the doctors noticed that her aortic and renal arteries were pumping and pulsing. The organ procurement surgery was stopped. The woman was then given additional doses of Fentanyl and Lorazepam leading to her being pronounced dead again 18 minutes after being pronounced dead the first time.
The case study reports that the autopsy concluded “The manner of death was determined to be homicide.” According to Annie Bao and Shiping Bao:
A postmortem sub-clavian blood toxicology study found 6.3 ng/mL of Fentanyl, 17 ng/mL of Lorazepam, 15 mcg/mL of Levetiracetam, and 29 ng/mL of Ziprasidone. The cause of death was determined to be acute Fentanyl toxicity due to a Fentanyl injection in the hospital. Another significant condition contributing to death was a ruptured berry aneurysm of the Circle of Willis. The manner of death was determined to be homicide. It is our opinion that the additional dose of Fentanyl given between 3: 00 A.M. and 3: 17 A.M. was the direct cause of death.
The case study does not indicate if the physician was charged with homicide or punished by the hospital or the body that oversees physicians. The case study does state “That: first, the organ procurement team should leave the room immediately and withdraw from the case...
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Since these acts and decisions are made in private settings, it is likely that this occurrence happens somewhat regularly without any notice or commentary by others. Further to that, the administration of a lethal dose of Fentanyl is unlikely to have been done unless it had been in the past.
In countries that have legalized euthanasia, linking organ donation to euthanasia not only provides a transplant but it also turns euthanasia into a “social good.”
Exactly the reason we decided to skip donating organs.
Exactly why I rescinded my donor status.
>>Most people become organ donors assuming their organs will be removed after they have died and shared with someone who needs healthy organs.
You might think that but they harvest. Just as Planned Parenthood does.
If you are considered “brain dead” they may even pluck your eyeballs out or otherwise remove organs sans anesthesia.
Gee… that’s almost enough to get me to go to our Motor Vehicle Administration to have “Organ Donor” removed from my driver’s license.
Yep.
I remember reading of a young black male in the hospital whose family visited him and said goodbye to a healthy man. The next day they were informed he died and his organs harvested and immediately used for a waiting heart transplant patient.
Rescinded mine right away.
The medical field has decreed that, because of Covid, family members aren’t allowed to go to the hospital with their family members. How many malpractice incidents and “questionable” deaths occurred with no family members present aka “witnesses?”
My brother is a medical malpractice attorney and I can assure you that crap happens all the time! And, I will add that my brother also went to medical school and graduated top of his class out of Harvard. He knows his stuff.
Monty Python black plague skit where the man said he wasn’t dead yet as they tried to put in the cart so they hit him in the head.
I recently watched a video on Kyle Carpenter, youngest Medal of Honor recipient (Afghanistan). He flat-lined three times but survived. I’m glad he had different doctors.
Made me think about Meaning of Life, Live Organ Transplants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp-pU8TFsg0
This is the reason I will not be an organ donor.
I did and changed it, a few years ago, when my Sister, a retired RN & NP, told me this stuff happens, all too often.
Was this in the US or is China getting a bit more humane with their “organ donors”?
Medical care in America is quickly getting the same bad reputation as lawyers. Everything has been corrupted by politicians.
Really sad. Many of us don’t trust our doctors anymore. Medicine and politics do not mix well.
Hey, harvesting organs is much easier than brain surgery. Makes lots of money too. I guess it's possible this woman had zero chance of survival, but the organ harvesting team doesn't get to play God.
Oh gee. Another reason not to do this.
To be fair, I doubt this happens much.
And is fentanyl used for this kind of thing? I wasn’t aware of that.
Butmoh trust your sainted doctor
They always have your best interest at heart
Nuts to that crap
The only person that has your best interest at heart is you
ONLY YOU
NO ONE ELSE CARES ABOUT YOU AS MUCH AS YOU.
WAKE UP
WAKE TF UP
At my age, they will file a crime report for hazardous waste if I try to donate my organs.
The case of Democrat Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/06/16/casey-donor-killed-by-gangs/
He needed a heart and a liver. He got one within 13 hours of being put on the list — from a a 34-year-old computer programmer who died after being beaten by suspected gang members.
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