re: #290 klys

I suspect that is the study being referenced, or at least one of them.

Out of curiosity I looked down the table. Munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when she died. In that table, when the onset of brain death was earlier than 15 weeks, none of the fetuses survived. There was one at 15 weeks that survived, but also one that didn’t. In most cases with a favorable outcome, the gestation period was substantially further along when brain death was declared.

I agree that it should be the family’s decision, so I’m obviously not advocating anything here — but some of those infants looked rather underweight, with only one at a five-pound birth weight. Do sick/underweight/premature infants have the same serious health problems as in the past?