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The Jahi McMath case centers on a teenaged girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013, when she was 13, and the bioethical debate surrounding her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in this case, and their efforts to maintain her body on mechanical ventilation and other measures, which her parents considered to constitute life support of their child but which her doctors considered to be futile treatment of a deceased person.〔 In October 2014, the McMath family attorney presented new evidence and made the unprecedented request that Jahi McMath's brain death declaration be overturned. The attorney later withdrew this request, saying he wanted time for the court-appointed medical expert and his own medical experts to confer. In March 2015, McMath's family filed a malpractice lawsuit against Children's Hospital Oakland and against the surgeon who performed McMath's surgery indicating they were prepared to argue as part of the lawsuit that McMath is not dead. ==Background== On December 9, 2013, McMath suffered massive blood loss and consequent cardiac arrest after undergoing surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland aimed at relieving symptoms from sleep apnea. According to McMath's doctors at Children's Hospital Oakland, the loss of blood circulation caused whole brain death. Her family refused to accept the medical declaration of death by neurological criteria, said that McMath was not dead, and initiated legal proceedings in an effort to require the hospital to continue treatment. According to court documents, McMath was admitted to Children's Hospital Oakland on December 9, 2013 to perform an adenotonsillectomy, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty and submucous resection of bilateral inferior turbinates. It was hoped these procedures would provide improved airflow during her sleep at night. The hospital described these procedures as complicated. The family described the surgery as a routine tonsillectomy in media reports.〔 After the surgeries were performed, McMath was conscious and according to her mother Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Statements in Response to Media Coverage December 2013 ) 〕 asked for a Popsicle while in the recovery room. She was later moved to the ICU before she started to bleed from her nose and mouth and went into cardiac arrest. During this time, blood flow to the brain was lost for an undisclosed period of time. On December 12, 2013, her doctors declared her brain-dead.〔 Her family was informed that she was legally dead, and that as a result, life support systems would be discontinued.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jahi McMath case」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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