Surgeons Harvesting Organs from ‘Deceased’ Patient Stop after Discovering He Wasn’t Completely Brain Dead

January 19, 2015

(Daily Mail) – Surgeons were forced to stop operating on a ‘deceased’ patient after discovering he was not brain dead. Doctors at a hospital in the Bremen area of Germany realised their patient was still technically alive after making an incision into his stomach. The team were due to harvest the man’s organs for donation. But the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports the operation was stopped as soon as the surgeons discovered their patient was not brain dead according to medical regulations.