13 year old girl is brain dead after tonsilectomy (Jahi McMath). Mom wants life support continued.

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NEW BEGINNINGS COMMUNITY CENTER Don Martin what are you talking about first before I band you lets make one thing clear we are all non profit and all moneys have been donated. or raised. so this will not effect your tax $$$$$$. also we are both in and outpatient that provides long term care..... oh but you knew that that's 2 for 2. just wondering by Chance I don't see MD at the end of your name are you a doctor sir? Do you have any Facts to support your claims. oh there is 3 for 3. You think saving a life is a waist of time this is non of your business.... This is what we specialize in. So now your 4 for 4 and still you mean to tell me you know everything about this case? even more than the investigation itself or you think that this is normal? do you know anything? this has nothing to do with the media, nothing to do with you, and has everything to do with Jahi and her family. you are a clown sir, you belong in a circus, who are you anyway, cant even put a picture up of your self that's to me is so lame. Come back after you have facts to back up your claim. because everything you stated is contrived.

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doomflower
I can't understand why they can't just prove brain death or catastrophic damage by way of demonstrating the Lazarus Sign...

Demonstrated here: http://youtu.be/BTnApcbDkmM

Explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign

Thom/other medical folks, your thoughts?

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Dr. Jonathan Fellus, the chief medical officer with the International Brain Research Foundation, a nonprofit group that specializes in treating coma patients and claims to have helped hundreds of people deemed brain dead awaken from comas, is in California to assist Jahi McMath's family.

Fellus told The News she needs to spend more time in the hospital to recover from her cardiac arrest and to determine if she could wake from the coma. He said her young age and that she suffered the cardiac arrest in a hospital and was quickly treated are both positive factors that favor possible recovery.

"Basically we need the dust to settle," he said. "It's difficult to see a clear picture [in a patient's brain after a cardiac arrest]. It's still not a clear picture."

"We need to examine her further," IBRF Chief Executive Officer Dr. Philip Defina told the Daily News on Tuesday. "There is hope."

What Jahi needs, he noted, was more time.

"Why wouldn't you want to examine it further?" he said. "Why do we want to jump ahead and pull the plug on this 13-year-old girl who may have a chance to recover?"

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Older Wiser
Philip DeFina is NOT a Medical Doctor!

This is THE MAN we are talking about: A man with an "ONLINE" Doctorate Degree in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University. who pretends to be a neurologist or neuroscience reseacher.

"Meadowlands hospital neuroscientist fired over controversial autism treatment"
Star Ledger
January 10, 2012

"SECAUCUS — The neuroscientist who would have overseen a controversial therapy for children with autism has been fired by Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus and, in a separate action, his nomination to a state commission on brain research has been delayed.

Philip DeFina was part of an ambitious plan by Meadowlands to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy to children diagnosed with autism. The therapy, typically used to treat burns and other wounds by energizing dying tissue, required approval from the state Department of Health and Senior Services. Meadowlands would have been the first hospital in the state to offer the experimental treatment.

But the application ran into strong opposition, and questions were raised in a Nov. 27 Star-Ledger article in which traditional medical and psychological experts said the treatment offers families false hope while draining bank accounts because the experimental therapy is not covered by insurance. Some families say it has helped their children, and argued that if a method is safe and seems to be effective, it should be given a chance even if it hasn’t been thoroughly vetted through research.

The article also described DeFina’s doctorate in clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University. The school, a mainly online university with monthly in-person sessions, is the only one to receive national accreditation from the American Psychological Association. DeFina’s experimental treatments with neurologist Jonathan Fellus for coma and brain injury have fetched as much as $100,000 from the families of patients who have not improved using traditional means. Fellus remains at Meadowlands.

Meadowlands withdrew the application to treat autism using hyperbarics on Nov. 30. Without elaborating, hospital spokesman Bill Maer confirmed last week that DeFina was terminated Dec. 2.DeFina was vice president for rehabilitation at Meadowlands and the scientific adviser for its Rehabilitation Institute and Neuroscience Center.

DeFina’s troubles continued last week when a state Senate panel poised to vote on his nomination to the New Jersey Commission for Brain Injury Research was delayed by its chairman, as well as Gov. Chris Christie’s administration, which tapped him for the unpaid post. DeFina said he was unaware his nomination to the commission was put on hold.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari said he delayed the vote on DeFina’s nomination to the brain injury research commissioner last week because he was "concerned about the information in the article. I want to delve into it more."

Scutari said a Christie official requested the nomination be pulled from the agenda. The governor’s office did not return a call or an e-mail seeking comment.

The commission reviews and funds research funded by a $1 surcharge on motor vehicle offenses.

Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), vice chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Services Committee, said he had no knowledge of DeFina’s dismissal. But he questioned why the administration asked to table its own appointment. "Who nominated him, and why?" Vitale said.

Meadowlands needed a license from the state Department of Health and Senior Services to use two hyperbaric chambers it bought last year, and would have needed state permission to use it to treat autism, a use not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In rescinding its application to treat autism, Meadowlands "felt that it was more appropriate to focus on receiving approval for hyperbaric chambers for the use as part of the creation of a wound care center," Maer said, noting its service area "has one of the highest prevalence of diabetes and peripheral vascular disease in New Jersey."

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stillwaters
If the body isn't alive, how does it have a metabolism to "lose weight"? Is this just more dysfunction in the brain of the moo?

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nightfire
"Does anyone know the results of keeping a deceased person on "life support"? How long before their body starts decomposing and simply starts rotting where it's propped up? "

I think the brain starts to liquify during the next several weeks while the person is on life support. The angiogram pictures of the brain dead person's brain that I've found on Google just show the circulation ending mainly at the neck, there is a whitish void beyond that in the skull. But that's the main thing I know of.

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mr. neptune
Cambion, you just came up with an idea for a great Febreze commercial!

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ladybug2203
now apparently moo is going to be responsible for her transfer, wooooooboi

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840744/jahi-mcmath-mom-can-remove-brain-dead-daughter

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ladybug2203
now apparently moo is going to be responsible for her transfer, wooooooboi

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840744/jahi-mcmath-mom-can-remove-brain-dead-daughter