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December 29th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
David Greer, neurologist with the Yale University School of Medicine (YUSM) has led a study that questioned the determining factors when declaring a patient brain-dead. Hospital policies that oversee this declaration are shockingly “inconsistent” and have averaged more failures than would be expected.
Greer assisted in creating guidelines for brain-dead declaration that were set for every hospital to follow in 2010 with the help of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
For this new study, the researchers looked at 492 hospital’s policies. While a majority of them had adopted Greer’s guidelines, there was a “significant difference in how key part of [those] guidelines have been accepted”.
When it comes to implementation, 20% of those policies analyzed do not require physicians check their patient’s temperature to indicate whether or not brain function is normal.
In 50% of the policies, doctors are not mandated to ensure the blood pressure of the patient is adequate for brain function. And a portion of doctors admitted to skipping tests altogether set forth by the guidelines.
Some hospitals allow unqualified personnel to determine brain-death; such as a nurse practitioner, or a physician’s assistant rather than calling in a neurologist.
How the medical profession determines death goes back to 1968 and a report published by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Death , who redefined “irreversible coma”. The report gave doctors the ability to declare a person dead in just a few minutes.
For a large majority of the medical establishment in years past, the definition of death was the patient’s loss of personhood and not necessarily defined by a heart that could not be restarted.
The Harvard authors defined a “permanently non-functioning brain” as:
• Unreceptively or unresponsitivity to “even the most painful stimuli”
• No movements or spontaneous breathing
• No reflexes
• Flat EEG
The results, according to the committee must be repeated 24 hours later to prove the patient was deceased. The only acceptations were hypothermia and drug intoxication because they can mimic conditions similar to death.
The criterion, set forth by the Harvard committee, was not based on any observations from patients, experiments on humans or animals.
Then in 1981 the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws was based on the Harvard committee document.
Within 13 years, all 50 states in the US codified this 4 page article as the definition of clinical death.
The mainstream medical community assumes that the brain controls bodily functionality.
D. Alan Shewmon , pediatric neurologist at UCLA, rejected this idea.
Shewmon believes the definition of clinical death needs revision. He says “that most integrative functions of the brain are actually not somatically integrating, and, conversely, most integrative functions of the body are not brain-mediated.”
In a 150 page document, Shewmon explains brain-dead patients still have heart beats. In one case, a patient survived more than 2 decades after brain death.
Properly determining death is important, especially when considering organ donation. Many patients find that they are not as dead as previously thought when on the operating table.
Six years ago, Colleen Burns was on the operating table with doctors about to take her organs (being an organ donor), when she opened her eyes. Burns was not dead.
After 3 days in a coma, doctors decided that Burns was deceased. A drug overdose of Xanax, Benadryl and a muscle relaxer and trip to the emergency room nearly cost Burns her life at the hands of medical professionals.
Burns was found unconscious in her apartment and rushed to the hospital. Because she was allegedly unresponsive, the medical staff pronounced her dead.
In fact, reports of a nurse noticing Burns curling her toes when tickled by other nurses was ignored.
A report by the New York Department of Health and Human Services (NYDHHS) states Burns’ case; as well as how NY frowns upon, yet has multiple cases of premature organ removal by doctors in hospitals.
The report stated: “Patient A [Burns] was moved to the OR suite for pursuit of the DCD [donation after cardiac death]. However, in the OR suite Patient A opened her eyes and looked at the lights; pursuit of DCD was subsequently halted.”
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