Guest guest Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 Is vitimin K bad for the liver? Or is it vitimin A? I am buying a calcium supplement, and is has vitimin K, can anyone answer this for me? Thanks, love Bobby Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile This article sounds too far fetched for me. When someone goes into cardiac arrest they are immediately transported to the hospital whether or not the hospital gets paid or not. Hospital are required to provide emergency care even if the patient cannot pay. The second thing is, that when the patient dies...there is testing done by two doctors that have no association with the transplant team to be sure that the patient is brain dead. This is a very tricky subject. They can tell this by looking at the electrical brain waves. Both doctors separately say whether or not they believe the patient is gone or not. There are two types of declaring someone dead...one is by no brain activity and the other is for the patient to quit breathing and his heart stop beating. If the heart stops beating for a certain period of time...it can cause brain damage for the blood the heart pumps first gose to the heart itself and then the Brain is the next in line. The brain has to have a non stop continual supply of oxygen from the blood to prevent damage. In the USA, The UNOS people are notified of a potential patient who may die and they have signed a donor card. They will contact someone at the hospital and someone will approach the family at the appropriate time period about this. This is done after the doctors have declared to them that there is no hope for recovery. It is them that the family decides whether the organ should be taken when declared brain dead or they want the heart to stop beating once taken off all life support. To have someone follow the patient to the hospital to prance on the patient to take the organ is inhumane. If someone wants to donate an organ to someone else when they are living...this is there right to do so. However, if the decision is to be made by the family, they need time without pressure, to make this determination. As long as the patient is on life support, the organs will be okay until that support is removed. It is a crime that so many people are on the waiting list... It is best to do this process in a wishful, humane way so that people will want to donate organs and not be pushed into it. When the patient is determined to be declared dead, the Unos people immediately contact those who will procure the organ and transport it to the transplant center that will receive it to be transplanted. It is the doctors right to determine whether the organ can be used or to have them reject it if they believe it isn't in good enough shape to transplant. When an organ becomes available in a certain area, the organ is usually transplanted to a person in that certain area...it is only tranported to another place if no one is available to accept the organ or the doctors say they don't want it. For example: if someone dies in Baltimore, Md....The organ would be available to the transplant centers in that surrounding area. There is only so much time after the organ is procured to see that it is transplanted as fast as possible. I don't know what they do in Sweden, but it sound very offensive to patient and their family to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hey Bobby, It's vitamin A that can become hepatoxic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A MaC robwalkingeagle@... wrote: Is vitimin K bad for the liver? Or is it vitimin A? I am buying a calcium supplement, and is has vitimin K, can anyone answer this for me? Thanks, love Bobby Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile This article sounds too far fetched for me. When someone goes into cardiac arrest they are immediately transported to the hospital whether or not the hospital gets paid or not. Hospital are required to provide emergency care even if the patient cannot pay. The second thing is, that when the patient dies...there is testing done by two doctors that have no association with the transplant team to be sure that the patient is brain dead. This is a very tricky subject. They can tell this by looking at the electrical brain waves. Both doctors separately say whether or not they believe the patient is gone or not. There are two types of declaring someone dead...one is by no brain activity and the other is for the patient to quit breathing and his heart stop beating. If the heart stops beating for a certain period of time...it can cause brain damage for the blood the heart pumps first gose to the heart itself and then the Brain is the next in line. The brain has to have a non stop continual supply of oxygen from the blood to prevent damage. In the USA, The UNOS people are notified of a potential patient who may die and they have signed a donor card. They will contact someone at the hospital and someone will approach the family at the appropriate time period about this. This is done after the doctors have declared to them that there is no hope for recovery. It is them that the family decides whether the organ should be taken when declared brain dead or they want the heart to stop beating once taken off all life support. To have someone follow the patient to the hospital to prance on the patient to take the organ is inhumane. If someone wants to donate an organ to someone else when they are living...this is there right to do so. However, if the decision is to be made by the family, they need time without pressure, to make this determination. As long as the patient is on life support, the organs will be okay until that support is removed. It is a crime that so many people are on the waiting list... It is best to do this process in a wishful, humane way so that people will want to donate organs and not be pushed into it. When the patient is determined to be declared dead, the Unos people immediately contact those who will procure the organ and transport it to the transplant center that will receive it to be transplanted. It is the doctors right to determine whether the organ can be used or to have them reject it if they believe it isn't in good enough shape to transplant. When an organ becomes available in a certain area, the organ is usually transplanted to a person in that certain area...it is only tranported to another place if no one is available to accept the organ or the doctors say they don't want it. For example: if someone dies in Baltimore, Md....The organ would be available to the transplant centers in that surrounding area. There is only so much time after the organ is procured to see that it is transplanted as fast as possible. I don't know what they do in Sweden, but it sound very offensive to patient and their family to do this. ------------------------------------ Group Email: livercirrhosissupport web address: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/livercirrhosissupport/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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