Man declared brain dead comes back to life during heart removal

Kentucky. The heart of a person who was declared brain dead in a hospital in America had to be removed. While the doctors were preparing for this, the body of the mentally dead patient came back to life. The doctors were going to remove his heart and transplant it into another patient’s body. The incident took place at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Kentucky. The patient’s name is Thomas TJ Hoover II. Age is 36 years.

Thomas was admitted to the hospital in 2021 due to a drug overdose. Later he was declared brain dead. Let us tell you that brain dead means such a condition of the patient when his brain dies. The brain gets badly damaged and is almost impossible to recover. Even in such a situation, signs of life can be seen in a dead person. His skin remains warm, his heart beats and his chest moves up and down with ventilation. The heart of such a patient is taken for organ donation. After complete death, the heart cannot be removed and transplanted into someone else’s body.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *