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  • Girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery will be taken off life support (Count the horrors!)

    12/17/2013 3:41:47 AM PST · by Wanderer99 · 57 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/17/13
    <p>A 13-year-old Northern California girl will be taken off life support Tuesday after she was declared brain dead following complications from surgery to remove her tonsils.</p> <p>KTVU-TV reported Monday that the head of the pediatrics department at Children's Hospital Oakland had told the family of Jahi McMath that the girl would be pulled from life support because she had been declared dead under California law.</p>
  • Transplant girl, 17, dies

    02/23/2003 2:11:41 AM PST · by kattracks · 36 replies · 288+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | 2/23/03 | News Wire Services
    DURHAM, N.C. - The teenager who was put through a second heart-lung transplant after the first was botched died yesterday. Jesica Santillan, 17, was declared brain dead at 1:25 p.m. and taken off life-support machines about 5 p.m., said Duke University Medical Center spokesman Richard Puff. She was kept on life support through the afternoon so family and friends could say goodbye, the hospital said in a statement. Medicine to keep her heart going was discontinued at 5 p.m. Her heart stopped seven minutes later and a ventilator then was turned off. Renee McCormick, a spokeswoman for a charity created...