Kentucky man declared brain dead wakes up during organ harvesting

[Warpy]

41. I can imagine the M&M session that's going to cover this one.

Risk management's bar bill will easily double. This is a nightmare for everybody.

It seems as though something was missed in the process of determining brain death. Even purposeless movement shouldn't have occurred. If there were any random body movements at all on that operating table, someone's head will roll.

This is all over major media in the US over the last 2 days. Most US stories indicate that the surgeons had just started, meaning nothing vital had been removed. The Guardian story was sensationalist and generally terrible.

An incision is a hell of a rude way to wake up a comatose patient. The lawsuit will be a doozy. Having been involved with some of this evaluation of deeply comatose patients, I'm relly wondering what was skipped or unevaluated.

Will Mr. Hoover make a full recovery? Unlikely, his injuries had to be horrendous for him to be considered as a possible donor.