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| Baby K is an accomplished rapper born in Philadelphia PA.Baby K reached notable status with his debut album "Hoodfavorite". Hoodfavorite was the most pirated music cd in 2008 and 2009. | |||
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| '''Baby K''' (October 13, 1992—April 5, 1995) was an ] baby who became the center of a major U.S. court case and a debate among ]. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| Stephanie Keene,<ref name=rtd95 /> better known by the pseudonym Baby K, was born at ] in ], ]. At the time of her birth, she was missing most of her brain, including the cortex; all that remained was the ], that portion of the brain responsible for ] and regulatory functions, such as the control of ], the ] and ].<ref>Ruling in Virginia, ''The New York Times'', Feb 12, 1994</ref> The baby's mother had been notified of her condition following an ultrasound,<ref name=rtd95 /> but chose to carry the child to term because of "a firm Christian faith that all life should be protected".<ref name=nyt93>{{cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Linda|title=Hospital Appeals Ruling on Treating Baby with Most of Brain Gone|work=]|date=1993-09-24|accessdate=2009-05-25|page=A.10|url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=966574601&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=20886&RQT=309&VName=PQD | |||
| }} (Registration required)</ref> She believed that God alone should decide how long the baby would live.<ref>Flannery, E. (1995) One advocate’s viewpoint: conflict and tensions in the Baby K case. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 23: 7-12</ref> The hospital's viewpoint was that care provided to the baby would be ].<ref name=nyt93 /> | |||
| The baby's mother wanted the hospital to continue with advanced supportive care (primarily ventilatory support), despite the fact that being born without a brain is not curable or treatable. <ref>{{cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Linda|title=Court Order to Treat Baby With Partial Brain Prompts Debate on Costs and Ethics|work=]|date=1994-02-20|accessdate=2009-05-25|url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=967067481&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientId=20886&RQT=309&VName=PQD|page=A.20}} (Registration required)</ref> Fairfax Hospital doctors strongly advised a ] order for the child, which the mother refused. Baby K remained on ] support for 6 weeks while Fairfax searched for another hospital to which to transfer, but no other hospital was willing to accept Baby K. After the baby was weaned off constant ventilator support, the mother agreed to move the child to a nursing facility, but the baby returned to the hospital many times for respiratory problems. | |||
| When Baby K. was admitted to the hospital at six months of age for severe respiratory problems, the hospital filed a legal motion to appoint a guardian for the child's care and sought a court order that the hospital did not need to provide any services beyond ] care. At trial, several experts testified that providing ventilator support to an anencephalic infant went beyond the accepted standard of medical care.<ref name="ReferenceA">Matter of Baby K. 16 F.3d 590 (] ])</ref> In contrast, the baby's mother argued her case on the grounds of religious freedom and the ]. In a controversial ruling, the ] decided that the hospital caring for Baby K must put her on a mechanical ventilator whenever she had trouble breathing. The court interpreted the ] (EMTALA) to require continued ventilation for the infant. The wording of this act requires that patients who present with a ] must get "such treatment as may be required to stabilize the medical condition" before the patient is transferred to another facility. The court refused to take a ] or ] position on the issue, insisting that it was only interpreting the laws as they existed. As a result of the decision, Baby K was kept alive much longer than most anencephalic babies.<ref name=nyt93 /> It has been suggested the dissenting judge in the case argued that the court should have used the condition anencephaly as the basis of the case, not the recurring subsidiary symptoms of respiratory distress. As the irreversibility of anencephaly is widely understood in the medical community, he argued that the decision to continue futile care only resulted in the repetitive diversion of medical equipment. <ref name="ReferenceA" /> | |||
| Baby K died April 5, 1995 at Fairfax Hospital.<ref name=rtd95>{{cite news|work=]|title=`Baby K' Dies at 2 1/2 in Fairfax Hospital|date=1995-04-07|page=B.6|accessdate=2009-05-25|url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=17976227&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientId=20886&RQT=309&VName=PQD}} (Registration required)</ref> | |||
| ==Significance of Baby K. case== | |||
| The case of Baby K. is of particular importance to the field of ] because of the rich variety of issues it raises: the definition of death, the nature of ], the concept of medical ], and many issues relating to the allocation of scarce resources. | |||
| Some commentators, including Arthur Kohrman and ], have argued that the ruling effectively undermined the right of physicians to make sound medical decisions. | |||
| ==References== | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
| * at Medscape | |||
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Baby K}} | |||
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Baby K is an accomplished rapper born in Philadelphia PA.Baby K reached notable status with his debut album "Hoodfavorite". Hoodfavorite was the most pirated music cd in 2008 and 2009.