A family had to flee their home country of Canada to save their son’s life, after doctors threatened to remove his life support and have his organs donated against their will.
Nicolas Tétrault told the Federalist that his son, Arthur, landed in Montreal Children’s Hospital after an accidental drowning. “It’s difficult to always have perfect attention, and we did not,” he said. “We should have, but at that time, we didn’t want to install a fence around the pool on the house that did not belong to us.”
A tragic accident
While having left the house to pick up one of his children from school, Tétrault forgot to close a door, allowing Arthur to have access to the pool, and led to his drowning. Tétrault said Arthur’s body was “almost freezing,” and the doctors began slowly raising Arthur’s temperature, gave him an MRI, and gave him sedatives to prevent seizures. All of this is part of the normal standard of care; once stabilized, the sedatives are weaned and the breathing tube removed to see if the patient is able to breathe on their own.
“When they extubated him three weeks after — just to do a trial to see if he could breathe on his own — our baby was able to breathe on his own successfully for about 18 hours or 12 hours,” Tétrault said.
But they faced another problem: Arthur’s airway had lost its form. Paul Harch, who is currently treating Arthur in the United States, said there is an easy treatment for this: a tracheostomy, which would enable Arthur to breathe on his own. For reasons unknown, doctors chose not to do so. […]
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