This article clarifies some issues raised by Dr. Ariane Lewis in her recent “Current
Opinion/Arguments” article on the case of Jahi McMath. Review of case materials. Jahi's …

Abstract Background The case of Jahi McMath has captured the attention of the public,
healthcare professionals, and ethicists. Jahi was declared brain dead in late 2013, but her …

Jahi McMath was diagnosed brain dead on 12/12/2013 in strict accordance with both the
pediatric and adult Guidelines, reinforced by 4 isoelectric electroencephalograms and a …

THE REVIEW BY KOBYLARZ AND SCHIFF IN THIS issue of ARCHIVES points toward a
future of greater diagnostic precision for states of impaired consciousness with eventual …

We read with interest the letter by Dolce et al.[1] on the need of a formal nosographic
revision of vegetative state. In this respect, Laureys et al.[2] recently stated that the term …

Wijdicks and colleagues1 recently presented the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR)
scale as an alternative to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 2 in the evaluation of …

Limited epidemiologic data undermine the identification of patients in a minimally con-scious
state (MCS) and needed health policy analysis. Based on the natural history of disorders of …

From the start, I followed the case of Jahi McMath with great interest. In December 2013, she
clearly fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for brain death. As a neurologist with a special interest …

abstract Jahi McMath was a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead on December 12,
2013, after a hemorrhagic complication following complex oropharyngeal surgery. Her case …

The concept of consciousness continues to defy definition and elude the grasp of
philosophical and scientific efforts to formulate a testable construct that maps to human …