Jahi McMath is finally at peace

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For those who have been following this saga . . I'm glad she was finally allowed to be at peace.

Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says | Fox News

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Specializes in Medical Surgical.

Mother: Girl at center of debate over brain death dies - ABC News

Let's all take a minute to talk about the elephant in the room here. Why on earth, who on earth would operate on a child that's been brain dead for 5 years. We knew this wouldn't end well.

Finally Jahi can rest in peace. My condolences to the family.

And again, I came across this on my Facebook people; I don't obsessively stalk this family on the internet.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

May Jahi be at peace.

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Thanks for sharing. RIP.

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Specializes in nurseline,med surg, PD.

I can't believe that she had surgery recently. I wonder for what?

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

I wonder if family will now sue the NJ hospital as well for her (2nd) death?

Doc Bastard's blog has posted on Jahi multiple times. The most recent one links to older posts which tell the story for those who aren't familiar.

Stories from the trauma bay: Finally over

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
I can't believe that she had surgery recently. I wonder for what?

The post between ours mentions what it could have been for. I just find the whole situation a bit...unsettling, I suppose. In addition to all the huge ethical issues, to waste finite resources on someone who is clearly dead is quite irresponsible.

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For those who have been following this saga . . I'm glad she was finally allowed to be at peace.

Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says | Fox News

Given that they found someone willing to perform surgery on her, it doesn't sound as if she was "allowed" to be at peace. Her body just finally shut down in spite of all efforts to the contrary.

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Jahi's family apparently found a surgeon willing to operate on her for "an intestinal" issue. Shortly thereafter, she finally died.

Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says | Fox News

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

It's a blessing. Maybe now the family can let her rest in peace.

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The long and the short of it from someone who claims to have inside knowledge of what happened:

-Jahi had been hospitalized several times for various issues, including January and April of this year for some kind of undisclosed intestinal issue.

-Allegedly Jahi was treated with antibiotics during each of her admissions, but no willing surgeons could be found to do any more than that.

-In early June she was taken to surgery, where no overt explanations for her issues could be found.

-Jahi nevertheless began to decline, main issues being renal failure and lactic acidosis, culminating in disseminated intravascular coagulation, multi-system organ failure, and fulminant liver failure causing uncontrollable bleeding.

-Allegedly she was taken back to OR on June 22, was sent back to the intensive care unit, where she shortly arrested and was coded for over 2 hours sans success.

This has not been corroborated officially and could be completely manufactured, but I suspect it is a truthful account.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Posts/thread merged for continuity in Nursing News.

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