"I HAVE SEEN MANY WALKING, TALKING, FAIRLY COHERENT PEOPLE WITH WORSE CEREBRAL/CORTICAL ATROPHY.
Yep, I have to - yet we still 'feed' them.
Posted on 03/25/2005 5:04:03 AM PST by WL-law
He is the absolute SCUM of the earth.
Correct! And Judge Greer is also SCUM of the earth for not allowing her to be reexamined. It is murder.
Judge Greer thinks that he is God and all you peons had better SHUT UP!.
EEG?
"I HAVE SEEN MANY WALKING, TALKING, FAIRLY COHERENT PEOPLE WITH WORSE CEREBRAL/CORTICAL ATROPHY.
Yep, I have to - yet we still 'feed' them.
"Yep, I have to ..."
Should be; "I have too ......"
" The reports I read indicated that the EEG from the cerebral cortex area were flat-lined."
Thank you. I did not have that information.
The occupant has left the tent.
God's speed.
I've been waiting to see something like this in print. Lots of hubru about it, but without a specialist reading the x-rays, not justifiable to comment on. WOW! This guy Schiavo has a lot to cover up, doesn't he? Remember the first girlfriend, the one who left him b/c she was afraid of him? That relationship might possibly have been overlapped with and before Terri's "accident". A reason to get her out of the way? This girlfriend was smart to leave him, as I'd assume she realized that his method of settling situations wasn't kosher!
EEG is easier to administer, but the PET scan gives very detailed information, and would identify -- with particularity and specificity -- cortical areas, i.e., in the frontal lobe, when she is responding, and in the language-generating areas of the left temporal lobe, when she is attempting to speak. (**BTW, I have a degree in Neuroscience as well as a Law degree**)
In other words, it would say a lot, and put to rest a lot of the speculation regarding "brain-stem only" avtivity.
But if Judge Greer arranges for her to die now, he'll never be subject to being second-guessed. And that is what's driving his inexplicable decision-making.
These judges who are ignoring the will of Congress and the President are not doing themselves any good, either.
An EEG is NOT an accurate tool, by any means, to make this kind of determination. Not even close.
We really are becoming another Nazi Germany; we have already started to kill off our mentally ill and terminally infirmed. The very Left who has been so critical of Bush's "facism" is driving us towards it.
Ping
Because of this article, along with others I have read, it astonishes me that any judge could conclude that further investigation is unwarranted. It is absolutely incredible.
ct scans are by convention read looking from at the bottom(feet) up, so what is on the viewer's left is on the patient's right. neuroscientists don't like this convention, preferring a top-down view, but it was made when radiologists ran the imaging machines and we're stuck with it. generally a board-certified neuroradiologist, neurologist, or neurosurgeon should be reading head ct scans; if it is not interpreted by one of these, i am generally suspect of the results.
if the EEG is ECS (electrocerebral silence), then she is by definiton brain dead. however, since by video she doesn't even come close to meeting brain death criteria, and activity such as she exhibits even if "reflex" should show up on EEG, i suspect an amateur interprectation of the true results. Terms such as "flatline" are not used by knowledgeble eeg interpreters.
do you have a link to the ct images?? the tube may be a shunt or (unlikely)may be part of the "brain stimulator" she had implanted (would need the op notes to see what type and where it was inserted). occasionally as a last ditch effort, even if the ventricles are large by what is suspected to be ex vacuo from atrophy, a trial of decreasing ventricular pressure may be tried, based on some questionable french literature with hydrocephalus....
btw, thanks for bringing up this aspect of her diagnosis; evidence supporting the depth of her dysfunction looks pretty shoddy.
The image I saw on codeblueblog a few days ago is of uncertain provenance, and while it shows an atrophied brain, it is not the same scans shown on various news programs yesterday which are Terri's.
I think his concerns might be based on a scan has some features in common with Schiavo's scan, but which is not Terri Schiavo's at all.
Hey! Where did you find that picture of Barbara Boxer before she started to comb her hair with a firecracker?
Google images.
However I did have to search a bit for a pic that wouldn't scare any children.
:-)
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