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Transcripts for CNN Sanjay Gupta MD 20140105 12:43:00

yeah. and she gets to, like, moving fast and it scared me the first time but now that she do it more and more every day. reporter: the family has not produced the video. the hospital suggests it s muscle reflex, common they say in brain death victims. and joining me to talk about this from new york is dr. stephen mayor. he runs the critical care unit at columbia care hospital and we ve spoken extensively about this sort of thing when i wrote the book cheating death a few years ago. welcome to the program, sir. i know you ve probably been following this story about jahi mcmath. three doctors have examined her now, as you may know, the outside expert is dr. paul fisher who is head of pediatric neurology at stanford and he found specifically some things i want to just relay. she has no reflexes. her pupils are not responding to light. she cannot breathe on her own. and they did scans and found that there s no evidence of blood flow to her brain. there s also no electrical activi ....

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Transcripts for CNN Sanjay Gupta MD 20140104 21:43:00

Muscle reflex, common they say in brain death victims. and joining me to talk about this from new york is dr. stephen mayor. he runs the critical care unit at columbia care hospital and we ve spoken extensively about this sort of thing when i wrote the book cheating death a few years ago. welcome to the program, sir. i know you ve probably been following this story about jahi mcmath. three doctors have examined her now, as you may know, the outside expert is dr. paul fisher who is head of pediatric neurology at stanford and he found specifically some things i want to just relay. she has no reflexes. her pupils are not responding to light. she cannot breathe on her own. and they did scans and found that there s no evidence of blood flow to her brain. there s also no lek electrical activity on eeg. let me ask you first, do you think there s any room for misdiagnosis or error in diagnosis here? sanjay, in this setting, ....

Muscle Reflex , Brain Death Victims , Critical Care Unit , Columbia Care Hospital , New York , Paul Fisher , Jahi Mcmath , Outside Expert , Cheating Death , Pediatric Neurology At Stanford , Blood Flow , Electrical Activity ,