Life, Death and the Bridges in Between - Part II, with Dr Sam Shemie.
The Critical Care Commute Podcast
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The Predictive Factors That Influence Decision Making in the Tkisha McKittie Case
Tkisha McKittie case which went to the Superior Court and the Superior Court ruled in favor of the existing Canadian guidelines for the brain-based determination of death or neurological determination of death. The family appealed. It went to the Court of Appeal who again ruled in favor and it was going to get appealed again but after over a year of her body being supported in the ICU in Brampton that she died a second time from a cardiac arrest. And so it never went to the Supreme Court to be challenged. But what I'm most proud of is in the work that we're doing currently is that rather than saying, you know, that's an isolated case. It gets a lot
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