A study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reviewed more than 120,000 Chinese-language publications on organ transplants and identified 71 papers in which doctors removed hearts and lungs from people for transplants without first performing a test to detect brain death. A total of 348 Chinese doctors, including surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists from 56 Chinese hospitals, co-authored the papers.
In fact, in the Chinese publications highlighted in the study, the doctors claimed that the prisoners whose vital organs they harvested were dead. However, a detailed expert analysis of the information contained in the same publications shows that this could not have been the case.
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Confirming brain death is a lengthy process that usually takes several hours, and one of the critical steps is to turn off the ventilator to assess whether the patient can breathe on his or her own. However, the documents detail that Chinese doctors intubated the organ "donor" after the declaration of presumed brain death or immediately before the operation. In some cases, the donor was ventilated using a face mask, indicating that there was no assessment of brain death...
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