Haunting video shows 'brain dead' organ donor being wheeled into surgery where he woke up on table

Terrifying video shows a supposedly encephalon dormant antheral being wheeled into organ donation surgery... lone for him to aftermath up connected the operating table.  

Thomas 'TJ' Hoover II, 36, was being 'honor walked' astatine Baptist Health Richmond Hospital successful Kentucky successful October 2021, successful video that's conscionable emerged.

The signifier sees loved ones and infirmary unit enactment up to cheer and grant a diligent who has been taken disconnected beingness enactment arsenic they're wheeled distant for organ removal surgery. 

But Hoover, who'd been hospitalized aft an overdose, wasn't dormant astatine all.

Moments later, helium would statesman trying to propulsion his ain teeth retired aft waking up connected the operating array arsenic country began. 

Hoover's sister Donna Rhorer told Fox56 said they were told their loved 1 'had nary reflexes, nary responses, nary brainwaves, nary encephalon activity' earlier they decided to region him disconnected beingness support. 

The infirmary unit adjacent did an grant locomotion for Hoover - a contented that sees nurses and different employees enactment up to amusement respect for organ donors arsenic they are wheeled into surgery.

Harrowing footage shows Hoover being pushed successful a infirmary furniture arsenic his heartbroken relatives accidental their goodbyes up of what they believed would beryllium a last procedure. 

'We had his grant walk, but astir arsenic soon arsenic his grant locomotion started, his eyes started to open, and not conscionable open, helium was checking around, looking to spot what was going on,' Rhorer said.

'And we were told that was conscionable reflexes, conscionable mean instinct, and he’s not there.' 

But erstwhile connected the surgical table, Hoover started thrashing around, crying and trying to propulsion his teeth retired arsenic surgeons prepared to harvest his assemblage parts, according to erstwhile Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates employee Nyckoletta Martin.

Then, arsenic the surgeons prepared to region his organs, Hoover began 'moving around' and 'was crying visibly,' according to Natasha Miller, different erstwhile employee. 

Miller said that erstwhile her workfellow called KODA - which had coordinated the transplant- the supervisor told them they were 'going to bash this case' anyhow and the infirmary needed to 'find different doctor.' 

Ultimately, the organ retrieval was canceled, and respective employees discontinue successful the aftermath. 

Rhorer says her member has had issues with his memory, walking and talking ever since, and she has had to go his ineligible guardian.

'I bash consciousness angry,' she said.

'I consciousness betrayed by the information that the radical that were telling america helium was encephalon dead, and past helium wakes up.

'They are trying to play God,' she claimed. 'They're almost, you know, picking and choosing - they're going to instrumentality this idiosyncratic to prevention these people.

'And you benignant of suffer your religion successful humanity a small bit.'

Former infirmary worker Martin added that respective of the employees who worked connected the transplant had to question therapy successful the aftermath.

'It took it's toll connected a batch of people,' Martin said, 'especially me.'

She has since go a whistleblower, submitting a missive to the House Energy and Commerce Committee astir the incidental arsenic it held a proceeding investigating organ procurement organizations.

'It's precise scary to maine present that these things are allowed to happen, and there's not much successful spot to support donors,' Martin said.

But Julie Bergen, the president and main operating serviceman for Network for Hope - which was formed by a merger betwixt KODA and LifeCenter Organ Donation Network - has denied the incident.

'No 1 astatine KODA has ever been pressured to cod organs from immoderate surviving patient,' she told NPR.

'KODA does not retrieve organs from surviving patients. KODA has ne'er pressured its squad members to bash so.'

Baptist Health Richmond has besides since insisted 'the information of our patients is ever our highest priority.

'We enactment intimately with our patients and their families to guarantee our patients' wishes for organ donation are followed,' a spokesperson for the infirmary told NPR.

The Kentucky Attorney General and US Health Services Resources Administration are present investigating the terrifying incident.