You cannot use MRI with those probes in her brain.
Are you truly suggesting that she really was cognizant of her surroundings?
So that's an excuse also for no PET test.
There was no interests in testing for Terri. It was blocked by the loving "husband" who saw to her execution.
Untrue, I have all kinds of metal in my body and can have an MRI, and have had several MRI's to check the progress of recovery.
I am , (wow, how to write this without totally upsetting a few FReeper), very angry at the folks who knew Terri and Michael Schiavo well enough to testify in a medical malpractice trial, including her parents, and lied about their (Michael and Terry's) close relationship for money. When you abuse the courts...?
What is done is done, but would truth in the beginning have prevented this murder?
Rose
I don't want to argue, but I just have to say this.
This entire thing all boils down to one simple fact: No one can possibly know what is or what is not going on in someone's brain. Our technology has not advanced this far yet. We cannot crawl into someone's brain to see whether or not they have any "awareness" in there or not.
Forget the families, forget the doctors, forget the nurses & nurse aides, forget the tests and physical assessments that were done, forget the tests and physical assessments that were not done, forget everyone's value systems, forget everyone's own personal anecdotal experiences, forget what you're brother-in-law or 3rd cousin twice removed told you because he's a radiologist with 35 years experience, and finally, you can even forget the damn autopsy. Forget it ALL.
No one this side of heaven knows what is going on in someone else's brain.
< /rant >
I think, though, that a PET scan would have been useful in determining how her brain was functioning, because a PET scan would measure brain activity as measured by glucose utilization (such is my understanding).