Posted on 03/22/2005 6:15:47 PM PST by FR_addict
The EEG report didn't say it was flat overall - if it had been, she'd be brain dead. It said there was no cerebral activity. (flat in terms of thoughts)
Bambakadis said he disagreed with the radiologists terminology, preferred severely abnormal, but typical of PVS. Even when they inflicted pain or opened her eyes.
Most of the Drs agreed with you that the stuff shown on the scans were just gliotic tissue, or if if there were living neurons, they were too isolated to communicate.
I don't like putting too much emphasis on the scans tho - to me, the clinical is most important.
BTW - all this talk about her not having a PET scan - it was her parents' radiologist who preferred SPECT to PET for her case. Made sense to me. Wish they had been able to do an fMRI tho.
Oh yeah? Sure. "Just like Terri"
What a load of Democrap.
This isn't a matter of cutting out a lobe. There wasn't any lobe to cut out!
>>After the segment above, Daryn turns to Gupta and says. the "EEG was flat what does that mean?"
>>Dr. Gupta: He said that and I was a little surprised that he said that. I mean that is a very clinical thing when you say someone's EEG is flat that means they are brain dead. That's a really inmportant term for transplant surgeons before they take someone's organs. Terri is not brain dead. I think just about anybody that looks at her can tell that. What exact state she is in. I don't know. I've never examined her but the video along shows that she is not brain dead.
>>Third, Dr. Cranford is the neurologist that examined her and whose testimony was used to determine that Terri was in PVS. Yet he states above that Terri's EEG is flat, which is impossible.
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