The Cellar - Dead mother incubator

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 528248)

Yes I read it. Steroids were not the only thing she received. The admin of steroids to pregnant women is a normal thing if they are threatening premature birth.

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 528258)

When people are brain dead and on life support their bodies shut down. The only way to keep them alive is through ventilatory support... Twenty-four and better forty-eight or seventy-two hours of treatment with steroids is better, but all of that is balanced against the fight to keep the body alive, esp if she is an organ donor.

Yeah, all of this was covered in the article

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Doctors use a ventilator to maintain breathing while the circulation is managed using IV tubes to provide fluids, drugs and blood transfusions.
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 67 per cent prospect of survival, according to statistics from the newborn charity Bliss.

This is the usual point at which doctors decide to deliver, giving the baby a good chance of life while minimising the time during which the mother's condition could go downhill.
They administer steroids in the hours beforehand to help premature babies with immature lungs breathe more easily after birth. The baby is delivered by caesarean section. The life-support system for the mother is then switched off.
Three years ago a brain-dead American woman, Susan Torres, was maintained on life support for nearly three months after a massive stroke.... He wanted her to be kept on an incubator and artificially respirated and hydrated to give their baby daughter a chance of survival. The 26-year-old mother was only 17 weeks pregnant when she died.

I just don't see any organ donation controversy.