http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaki...h-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com
Oakland girl, 13, declared brain-dead after tonsil surgery
By David DeBolt and Rick Hurd
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 12/16/2013 06:06:13 AM PST
Jahi arrived at the hospital Monday and was supposed to be released Tuesday, the family said.
Monday night, Chatman, a veteran nurse at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, noticed her granddaughter was bleeding from her mouth and nose. She later went into cardiac arrest.
Jahi spent Tuesday on a ventilator. By 2 a.m. Wednesday, doctors said she had swelling in her brain, and Thursday, she was declared legally brain-dead, family members said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/17/health/california-girl-brain-dead/index.html
Family wants to keep life support for girl brain dead after tonsil surgery
By Tom Watkins and Mayra Cuevas, CNN
December 18, 2013 -- Updated 2132 GMT (0532 HKT)
"I don't want her off life support because I really feel like she can wake up," Nailah Winkfield told CNN's Piers Morgan. "I feel like it's just been a rough week for her and, if they just give her some more time, then she'll be able to wake up."
Jahi's family has presented Children's Hospital & Research Center in Oakland, California, with a cease-and-desist letter aimed at preventing the hospital from taking her off a ventilator, attorney Christopher B. Dolan said Tuesday.
Family of Oakland girl on ventilator furious after meeting with hospital officials
By Kristin J. Bender, David DeBolt and Katie Nelson Oakland Tribune
Posted: 12/20/2013 05:51:07 AM PST
Updated: 12/20/2013 06:43:39 AM PST
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24761285/oakland-family-brain-dead-13-year-old-girl
"They said, 'What don't you understand?' She is dead, dead, dead,'" said Omari Sealey, the uncle of Jahi McMath, the Oakland teen who has been kept alive by machines since complications from a tonsil surgery last week in a case that has brought national attention and prayers from social media users around the world. "They just kept referring to her as 'a body.'"
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Family-of-girl-declared-brain-dead-afraid-of-5080441.php
Attorney Christopher Dolan said the family would maintain a vigil at Jahi's bedside.
"They're going to have that body surrounded so that nobody can touch Jahi," Dolan said. "They're afraid. Could the hospital go in and try to do something? I think it would absolutely be foolish. But in their eyes she's no longer a person. She's dead. So they're not looking at her like it was your daughter or my daughter, they're looking at her like they've got to get her out of there quickly."
In a statement Thursday, David Durand, the hospital's chief of pediatrics, said, "Our hearts go out to family and friends of Jahi McMath. This is a tragic situation. We implore the family to allow the hospital to openly discuss what has occurred and to give us the legal permission - which it has been withholding - that would bring clarity, and we believe, some measure of closure and deeper understanding of this medical case."
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9366922
Oakland family: Children's Hospital calls girl 'dead'
Jahi's story has even caught the attention of California Attorney General Kamala Harris.
"It's tragic, that little girl and what her family must be experiencing, feeling. We are monitoring it to see if and whether there is any role that we would play appropriately. So we are following it and I'm paying attention to it," said Harris
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-orders-Oakland-hospital-to-keep-Jahi-on-5083153.php
Oakland hospital must keep brain-dead girl on ventilator
Henry K. Lee
Updated 5:59 am, Saturday, December 21, 2013
An Oakland girl declared dead by Children's Hospital Oakland must be kept on a ventilator until an independent neurologist can examine her to determine if her brain is showing signs of activity, an Alameda County judge ruled Friday in a case stemming from a tonsillectomy that ended in tragedy.
Friday, December 20, 2013
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/nation...s-it-wants-to-keep-life-support#ixzz2o5DdI353
Posted: 12/17/2013
By: CNN Wire
"After the surgery, she (Jahi) was fine. She went into the recovery room. She was alert and talking, and she was asking for a Popsicle because she said her throat hurt. As part of the procedure, she was meant to spend the night in ICU," Sealey said. "When she got moved to ICU, there was a 30-minute wait until any family member could go see her. Upon entry, they saw that there was way too much blood."
"She lost four pints of blood. She had to have four blood transfusions. She had two liters of blood pumped out of her lungs, not including what was in her stomach," Sealey said. "There was an enormous amount of blood, and we kept asking, 'Is this normal?' Some nurses said I don't know and some said yes. There was a lot of uncertainty and a lack of urgency."
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