that s the truth when it comes to brain death, we are talking about death. this is just another term for it. is brain death different than a persistent vegetative state or being in a coma? it is. i know you ve done some reporting on this as well, people who have cox and seemingly recovered from comas, this is different. and terms matter here, people can be in a coma and still have brain activity. they can be? a persistent vegetative state. there is no brain activity. the higher brain functions as well as the lower brain functions which control your reflexes in terms of breathing, controlling your heart rate, all these basic functions of the body. the only way you have those functions at all is artificially through these machines. her family says she responds
what may take place affecting her prognosis. that s the truth when it comes to brain death, we are talking about death. this is just another term for it. is brain death different than a persistent vegetative state or being in a coma? it is. i know you ve done some reporting on this as well, people who have cox and seemingly recovered from comas, this is different. and terms matter here, people can be in a coma and still have brain activity. they can be? a persistent vegetative state. there is no brain activity. the higher brain functions as well as the lower brain functions which control your reflexes in terms of breathing, controlling your heart rate, all these base iic functions of the body. the only way you have those functions at all is artificially through these machines. her family says she responds to touch, is that possible with someone who s been pronournnced
years later is not the choice i was going to make. she was in a persistent vegetative state. they felt this is what she would want. as difficult as it was, they felt that was the right choice. reporter: the family s lower, richard fried, said dr. lily geier with island dentistry for children, when she went in for a dentist appointment, she left with permanent brain damage. it was very sad, their only child, totally unnecessary. this was a perfectly normal, healthy, maybe unusually bright, full of life child. reporter: he says finley was getting ten different procedures, four which were a type of root canal and given five drugs in very excessive doses. add together problem, she wasn t monitored throughout the procedure. clearly, once we got the
girl to a treatment facility. doctors to shivo was in a persiste persistent vegetative state and the family was involved in a battle. jahi mcmath is on a ventilator and the hospital is referring to her as deceased body. no one is denying the family right to keep her on life support and the court said this
that is what i am going through. i don t want december 30th at 5 o clock to come. let s talk to alex little. is the judge likely doing the right thing? i think so. this is a tragic situations and every s heart going out to the family. the judge is making the right call. but the judge is determined that she meets the legal definition of dead. but this case is heart wrenching. and we want it make clear, because we get e-mail saying about what shivo. and she wasn t brain dead but a persistent vegetative state.