By Michael Arthur Vacca and Louis Brown Jr. The American Academy of Neurology has altered its guidelines, at great cost to the life and dignity of patients. What if your local hospital could declare your family member “brain dead” even though part of her brain was still functioning? What if the hospital could use that illegitimate […]
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The Speaker Salon interviews two doctors and a theologian on the topic of organ harvesting and the controversies surrounding brain death diagnostics. Dr. Heidi Klessig, author of The Brain Death Fallacy shares about her career as an anaesthesiologist and why she was needed in the operating room to administer anaesthesia to a man who was
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– yet, they keep updating their guidelines. That alone should give us pause. This newest iteration actually changes the definition of brain death from “irreversible” cessation of all brain function to “permanent” loss of function. The Uniform Law Commission recently declined to adopt this change because it is too subjective. A permanent brain injury is
Board-certified neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) could change the legal definition of brain death. Recording and additional resources available here: https://www.ncbcenter.org/bioethics-on-air-podcast-cms/bioethics-on-air-episode-109-redefining-death-by-revising-the-udda FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEW: Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to update listeners on efforts to redefine death by revising
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The Health Care Civil Rights Task Force strongly condemns proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) that would allow for subjective determinations of death. The Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit group of lawyers that creates model legislation to bring uniformity to state laws, week recently to discuss changing how death is determined.
Presentation by attorney and bioethicist Michael Vacca to the Catholic Nurse’s Association on the ethics of determining death solely by neurologic criteria, i.e., brain death.
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Colleen Haupt Host of Living a Culture of Life speaks with Michael Vacca from Christ Medicus Foundation concerning the teachings of the Church in regard to organ donation. The Dark Side of Organ Donation – YouTube
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As a life-long, prolife Catholic, I mistakenly thought I knew almost everything there was to know about life issues. That changed several years ago when I began working for the Healthcare Advocacy and Leadership Organization (HALO) whose mission is to be “a voice for the medically vulnerable.” Previously, I had not realized that hospitals commonly
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Emily Cook, Texas Right to Life’s General Counsel, presents the three points you NEED to know about brain death diagnosis in Texas, including the three questions you ABSOLUTELY MUST ask the doctors caring for your loved one.
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