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(455 posts)that the only hospital offering the hope of brain activity came from out of the country. Three US specialists all determined brain death. The family went against recommendations and spent their time and energy and money to search for an answer they preferred over their baby being dead.
Those quacks hooked this poor dead kid up to equipment for 3 months and handed the family 2 EEGs that supposedly proved the baby was still alive. EEG results are *NOT* the primary means of diagnosis for brain death. They aren't even the secondary or tertiary from what I understand, for that matter. It's no surprise at all that they get back to the US and the experts there said "yeah ..... no. Sorry. That baby is dead."
This poor family was sold an expensive, heartbreaking lie. Sadder still, they bought it up eagerly instead of just grieving and letting go.