A delay before ending life support was also what made the difference between life and death for Shane Becker, in Vancouver, BC.
His family was planning to donate his organs after the 25-year-old college student suffered a fall that severely injured his brain.
When his mother arrived at the Vancouver General Hospital, she said she was told that her son’s brain would soon stop functioning, and he would not recover.
As she was struggling with the news, she was approached by a hospital social worker. Donna Becker said she was asked to sign the organ donation certificate.
“I just made a decision to do so knowing Shane would’ve wanted me to,” she told McKeown.
But the decision to take Becker off life support had to be postponed. The family wanted to wait for his father, who had to drive from the BC interior to say his final goodbye.
While they were waiting, Becker’s mother, a nurse, noticed a tiny change in her son.
“When we were all holding his hand, he did, there was definitely some change in his grasp. It became a little stronger, especially when we spoke to him,” she told McKeown.
She also noticed that his pupils were now constricted, instead of fixed and dilated.
Becker was never officially declared dead. But the medical team revised their original prognosis, and began surgery on his brain at 11 am the next morning. He spent weeks in a medically-induced coma, then went through months of rehabilitation, relearning almost everything.
有个年轻人晚上喝醉， 桥上掉下来， 成植物人。 医生认为没办法救活， 和他母亲商量拔管。 因为年轻人， 器官好， 商量拔管前利用他的器官。其母亲是护士， 也有一些医学知识。 就同意了。
但他父亲上班地方远， 要等他父亲来见最后一面。 几小时后， 父亲到病床前， 说话时候发现儿子眼角有一滴泪。 坚决不同意拔管。
后来这个小伙救醒了， 结婚生孩子了。 可以说他父亲救了他一命。
年轻人， 慎重签署自愿捐赠器官文件， 有可能医生不尽力。 电视上看到的， 发生在温哥华。 我看能不能找到原文。
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trenton-mckinley-regains-consciousness-after-parents-sign-papers-to-donate-his-organs-2018-05-06/
A delay before ending life support was also what made the difference between life and death for Shane Becker, in Vancouver, BC.
His family was planning to donate his organs after the 25-year-old college student suffered a fall that severely injured his brain.
When his mother arrived at the Vancouver General Hospital, she said she was told that her son’s brain would soon stop functioning, and he would not recover.
As she was struggling with the news, she was approached by a hospital social worker. Donna Becker said she was asked to sign the organ donation certificate.
“I just made a decision to do so knowing Shane would’ve wanted me to,” she told McKeown.
But the decision to take Becker off life support had to be postponed. The family wanted to wait for his father, who had to drive from the BC interior to say his final goodbye.
While they were waiting, Becker’s mother, a nurse, noticed a tiny change in her son.
“When we were all holding his hand, he did, there was definitely some change in his grasp. It became a little stronger, especially when we spoke to him,” she told McKeown.
She also noticed that his pupils were now constricted, instead of fixed and dilated.
Becker was never officially declared dead. But the medical team revised their original prognosis, and began surgery on his brain at 11 am the next morning. He spent weeks in a medically-induced coma, then went through months of rehabilitation, relearning almost everything.
Now Becker is 32, married and a father.
https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/dead-enough
他没准就是看了这个报道才那么想的
不可能医生根据自己判断就动手吧