Anne Heche is not expected to survive

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Anne Heche, who remains hospitalized after crashing her vehicle into a Los Angeles residence last week, is "not expected to survive," according to a statement from her family and friends shared with CNN by a representative.
"Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to survive," the statement read. "It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable."
Anoxic brain injury occurs when the brain is deprived of oxygen.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/12/entertainment/anne-heche-family-statement/index.html

 

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Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor has said.

Under current California law, death can be determined by the loss of all brain function and in accordance with accepted medical standards.

While Heche is legally dead, she's on life support and “her heart is still beating" so that the nonprofit organisation OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokesperson Holly Baird said in a statement.

-- https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainme...erican-actress-anne-heche-declared-brain-dead

 

[BillTre]

While Heche is legally dead, she's on life support and “her heart is still beating" so that the nonprofit organisation OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokesperson Holly Baird said in a statement.

This is a lot like what happened several times when I was a recovery tech for an eye bank. We also coordinated with recovery techs for tissues (skin, tendons, blood vessels) and organs (larger more complex things where perfusion is more important, like kidneys). They are different organizations.

Typically, someone would be all plugged-in in an ICU and die for some reason, but the machinery would prevent immediate cell death through out the healthy parts of body.

When it was time to get the organs (which go first), circulation was stopped surgically and the organ removed, put on ice and rapidly taken to where they are intended to be transplanted.
Next tissues are removed, iced, taken away and processed.
Corneas were removed last (I did that). The cells in them can stay alive for 24 hours in a dead body. Tissues have a similar post-death lifespan to corneas.

Organs require very quick action. They are only removed where a death occurs in a hospital with enough time after the donor is identified to have recipients also indentified.

In all cases, of course, permission has to be obtained beforehand.