CA - Parents Of Toddler Declared Brain-Dead Convinced He’s Still Alive

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My guess is Israel has been moved to Cuba--under the care of Cuban neurologist Dr. Calixto Machado. He is a "buddy" of Dr. Paul Byrne, and consulted on the Jahi McMath case. He is a special advisor of the "ReAnima Project" to "revive and awaken" dead brains. We haven't heard his name in connection to Israel's case yet, but this is my strong suspicion. The Bioquark study has been approved for India, so that's a possibility, too-- but much further than Cuba.

http://reanima.tech/team-view/dr-calixto-machado-md-phd/

http://www.thaddeuspope.com/images/2014-10-14_Signed_Declaration_of_Dr_Calixto_Machado.pdf

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BIOQUARK?src=hash

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#Bioquark are recruiting 20 clinically dead patients that want their nervous systems re-animated. Sign up?
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http://www.bioquark.com/

Disorders of Consciousness / Brain Death
Brain death is the legal definition of human death in most countries around the world.
However, while humans lack substantial regenerative capabilities in the CNS, many non-human species can repair, regenerate and remodel substantial portions of their brain and brain stem even after critical life-threatening trauma.
We are at a very unique moment in history where the convergence of the tools of regenerative biology, resuscitation / reanimation research, and clinical neuroscience have placed us on the verge of major scientific breakthroughs.
Non-randomized, open-labeled, interventional, single group, proof of concept study with multi-modality approach in cases of brain death due to traumatic brain injury having diffuse axonal injury.

To receive further confidential information about Bioquark’s plans in this space, please place the phrase “BQ-Phoenix” in the subject line of our contact form, or visit the Reanima Project site at http://www.reanima.tech
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http://medicalfutility.blogspot.com/2016/05/clinical-trial-to-rregenerate-brains-of.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...ought-back-to-life-in-groundbreaking-project/

Indian specialist Dr Himanshu Bansal, working with Biotech companies Revita Life Sciences and Bioquark Inc, has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life.

Scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas.

The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord - the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat.
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The ReAnima Project has just received approval in India, and the team plans to start recruiting patients immediately.

The first stage, named 'First In Human Neuro-Regeneration & Neuro-Reanimation' will be a non-randomised, single group 'proof of concept' and will take place at Anupam Hospital in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand India and is being led by Dr Himanshu Bansal of Revita Life Sciences.

Dr Bansal said he had already had some success with two patients in the Gulf and Europe.

"We have even offered the same protocol to a couple of brain dead subjects in Gulf and Europe," added Dr Bansal.

" They are still in minimal conscious state but who knows that they may come out and have reasonable conscious useful human life.

"We are now trying to create a definitive study in 20 subjects and prove that the brain death is reversible. This will open the door for future research and especially for people who loose there dear ones suddenly."
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So Israel *could* be admitted to the study in Cuba under the supervision of Dr. Machado.

Here's an air ambulance that does international moves, and will bring patients to Havana, Cuba. They are based out of Florida:

If you require air ambulance services to or from Havana or any other city in Cuba, there really is only one logical choice: Air Ambulance Worldwide, Inc. In early 2011, Air Ambulance Worldwide, and its affiliate, Air GATO Enterprises, were granted the air rights required to make emergency and non-emergency medical air transport flights between the United States and Cuba. Approval was granted by both the U.S. Treasury Department and the Cuban government after an arduous and painstaking licensing process – a process Air Ambulance Worldwide gladly undertook in order to provide our clients the most complete air ambulance services anywhere in the world.
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http://www.airambulanceworldwide.com/air-ambulance-havana-cuba

http://www.airambulanceworldwide.com/
 
In documents filed Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Snyder said a Kaiser medical team and attorneys for both sides met at Israel’s bedside around 5:30 a.m. Saturday to begin the process of transferring him by ambulance to McClellan Airfield. An air transport team, including a registered nurse and a respiratory therapist, helped with preparations, which included keeping him on a temporary ventilator. Israel and his parents then departed Sacramento around 7:30 a.m. on an air ambulance and were flown to the undisclosed location, arriving sometime Saturday afternoon.

The documents also stated that Israel’s parents signed an agreement releasing Kaiser and its staff from all liability involving Israel’s transfer once he left the Roseville hospital.

Kaiser Roseville officials confirmed that Israel was no longer under their care and wished the family “peace” in their continued quest to find medical treatment elsewhere.
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Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article79271617.html#storylink=cpy

**KZ note-- the timeline is right for a flight to Cuba. It's about 4000km from Sacramento to Havana, or a little over 5 hours, depending on the plane, route, and weather.

Israel’s treatment is considered a temporary move, lasting a few weeks or up to a month until he is stabilized. Ideally, Snyder said, his parents hope to bring him back to California where he can be cared for in-home or at a long-term care facility, depending on insurance coverage and his diagnosis.
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Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article79271617.html#storylink=cpy

^^That is wildly optimistic-- there is no way, IMO, that Israel will ever be brought back to the U.S. with a beating heart. This was a one way trip, IMO. (Unless some day the family wants to move his remains back to the U.S.)
 
Oh that research sounds so unethical to me... even if they could do some tricks to regenerate brain cells, which they might not be able to do, that's a long way from the waking the dead or, having the patient "come out and have reasonable conscious useful human life". Most likely anyone whose brain cells would get regenerated from scratch after a brain death would be very severely disabled and helpless all their life and nothing like their former self.

It seems like it's a perfect plan to keep the grieving families in a limbo keeping up hope and trying to scrape up money for fiendishly expensive treatments.

Sometimes it's better to let the dead depart in peace. JMO.
 
Sounds like he's going to be used in a science experiment. This is so sad. That baby is already in heaven.
All MOO

Organ donation was so offensive to them, but somehow they can stomach this? I need to stop reading.
 
rob said:
Sounds like he's going to be used in a science experiment. This is so sad.
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Sounds like a cross between Frankenstein and 19th century body snatching to provide corpses for anatomists.
 
What's the harm in letting the parents take this child out of the hospital to another hospital that thinks he is still alive? Either he will improve, or he will be determined to be brain dead as US doctors stated. It seems like a kind act to allow the parents to access right-to-life nonprofits and however much money they have for hospitalizing this beloved baby, let them do it. Miracles do happen although I think this child will not improve and the nonprofit money, quickly, will run dry.
 
JeannaT said:
What's the harm in letting the parents take this child out of the hospital to another hospital that thinks he is still alive? Either he will improve, or he will be determined to be brain dead as US doctors stated. It seems like a kind act to allow the parents to access right-to-life nonprofits and however much money they have for hospitalizing this beloved baby, let them do it. Miracles do happen although I think this child will not improve and the nonprofit money, quickly, will run dry.
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I just wonder if it's the kind of place in which they will tell them the truth if he is indeed brain dead or the kind of place where they don't really believe in brain death and keep telling them that he could still recover if we try this treatment and that supplement and if everyone prays double hard and please donate, our paypal is... .

I suppose finding a place for him a great relief for the family in the short term. It could be very traumatizing if you felt like your child got murdered when people pulled the plug prematurely.

But in the long run if the organ support for a brain dead person lasts for a long time it may turn out to be even a worse strain on everyone. If your child dies, you will grieve your loss, and it will be devastating ... but if your child is stuck in a limbo between not-quite-life and not-quite-death, you have to worry, and hope, and worry, and hope, and worry..... You'll be stressed about collecting funds, stressed about the legal battles, stressed about being in the hospital, stressed about seeing your precious baby like that... The time sitting on his bedside in a foreign country takes you away from whichever other people or things that are important in your life and you may have to stress about the impact of that... You will still grieve your loss, and it will still be devastating, but while you're grieving you can't begin to let go of the fear and the stress of trying to make things better and trying to find one more sign of hope and clinging to false hopes and getting disappointed time after time.
 
Donjeta, I'm kind of okay with them going on ******** for help, and praying for miracles. I think there's something there that should be honored - a parent's desperate attempt to heal a child, and a positive public reaction to help out when all seems lost. Like the Baby Jessica case - the world stopped and prayed and gave suggestions and hoped and hoped that that little girl would come out of the well alive, against almost insurmountable barriers.

With all the heartlessness and hopelessness you see in the world, this is a sweet ray of goodness, IMHO. If it's private money, and a willing hospital, I think there's no problem with that.

But I do see what you're saying.
 
Yeah... There's nothing wrong with compassion and people wanting to help desperate parents but in my opinion it tends to be unethical for health care providers to say that someone is not brain dead and that he could recover, if that is in fact not true. Some of the people who get mixed up in these causes are there less for compassion and more to further their own agenda. JMO.
 
I think the danger comes from increased instances of this happening. It's a simple to thing to look at one or two cases and have empathy for the parents: what's wrong with them trying to do everything possible for their children even if every reputable doctor says their child is dead? But what happens when this starts to spread like other quasi-religious medical beliefs, like the anti-vaccine movement? What happens when it's not one, but thousands of cases of brain-dead family members who are still breathing only for extremely expensive machines and hospital space? All of the cases I've heard of (two) have ended, not in court, but when the parents found some facility willing to help them and funds to support it. How long will insurance and/or the hospitals be forced to pay to keep someone on life support while the court battle drags out? Especially as modern medicine improves and the ability to keep someone "alive" in that condition increases. I hate to use a slippery slope argument, because we really are talking about two cases. But that's my concern.
 
stormshine said:
I think the danger comes from increased instances of this happening. It's a simple to thing to look at one or two cases and have empathy for the parents: what's wrong with them trying to do everything possible for their children even if every reputable doctor says their child is dead? But what happens when this starts to spread like other quasi-religious medical beliefs, like the anti-vaccine movement? What happens when it's not one, but thousands of cases of brain-dead family members who are still breathing only for extremely expensive machines and hospital space?
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It's a very real concern, and one I share. It's what happens when one person "gets away with" something, be it theft, assault or, in this case, refusal to accept someone is dead - a second, a third and then a fourth case comes along and before you know it a form of anarchy has broken out.

I'm not sure how the problem can be tackled though, other than states enacting legislation that means that a diagnosis of brain death is final and not appealable, either to the doctors or to the courts.

In the meantime, the problems seem to arise when hospitals indulge in an of act compassion to the bereaved parents and allow them time to "say goodbye", thus giving them time to run to their lawyers. Perhaps the interim answer is for hospitals to quietly disconnect the machines before telling the family the diagnosis so that the present kindnesses cannot be exploited and turned against them.
 
BetteDavisEyes said:
This Detroit family gets it and has made the very painful, but realistic, decision to remove brain-dead child from life support tomorrow after her organs have been harvested.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...5/27/girl-critical-shooting-detroit/85052800/
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Poor little McKenzie was shot in the head. It's probably easier for the parents to accept the death when there are such visible signs of head trauma as there would be with a gunshot wound to the head.

I imagine it's a lot harder to absorb the fact of death when the child's body appears perfect.
 
MelmothTheLost said:
It's a very real concern, and one I share. It's what happens when one person "gets away with" something, be it theft, assault or, in this case, refusal to accept someone is dead - a second, a third and then a fourth case comes along and before you know it a form of anarchy has broken out.

I'm not sure how the problem can be tackled though, other than states enacting legislation that means that a diagnosis of brain death is final and not appealable, either to the doctors or to the courts.

In the meantime, the problems seem to arise when hospitals indulge in an of act compassion to the bereaved parents and allow them time to "say goodbye", thus giving them time to run to their lawyers. Perhaps the interim answer is for hospitals to quietly disconnect the machines before telling the family the diagnosis so that the present kindnesses cannot be exploited and turned against them.
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I'm at a bit of a loss here. To me, parents refusing the process that their child is dead, when before their very eyes the child is moving in response to being tickled, is a good thing. Parents who will quickly side with doctors that a situation is hopeless don't have what it takes to be the best advocate for their children!

And I'm not sure I'd equate advocating for further services for a child a doctor has stated is dead equates to theft assault. ??
 
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