Virginia: Easing Standards for Declaration of Brain Death – and Increasing Errors
…” regarding people who clearly were not (e.g. Haleigh Poutre and Dorothy Livadas) in some high-profile cases, it’s clear that at least some medical professionals don’t see much harm in erroneously labeling someone as “brain dead” if they think the person doesn’t have much of a chance of a “meaningful” recovery. If people are declared brain dead under the new rules who would not have been under the old ones, it might also result in a small increase…