MTM-Interview with Dr. Heidi Klessig MD The Brain Death Fallacy Part Two
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A man is declared dead on an operating table, sent to the morgue, and then wakes up 40 minutes later with his abdomen still open. That story isn’t shared for shock value, it sets up the central question we wrestle with: when medicine says “dead,” does it always mean what you think it means, especially when organ donation is on the table?
We’re joined again by Dr. Heidi Klessig to dig into Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD), a fast-growing organ procurement pathway used when a patient is not brain dead but has a poor prognosis and a DNR is in place. We walk through the…
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