But they can’t transfer her to another hospital or have another doctor examine her without getting the death certificate cancelled.

“It’s been crazy,” Stewart said. “You get a call that your daughter, her heart has stopped, so you think you’re going to lose her. Then, you come to the hospital, and they have resuscitated her.”

Doctors used ice to treat the swelling of her brain, and she was breathing on her own and moving, although unconscious in ICU. But after 72 hours of observation, although her heart is still beating, her breathing stopped.

“You sit there for three days and hope that the doctors are doing something to make her better,” Stewart said, but he didn’t see it.

When the family asked, they were told there was no medicine and no treatment.

She has never regained consciousness and remains in a coma.

Justice Shaw ordered life support to remain connected until a decision by the Consent and Capacity Board, as per the Health Care Consent Act (HCCA).

A spokesperson for Willaim Osler Health said the hospital could not speak to McKitty’s case due to privacy issues, but that “before health care decisions are made, there are a number of processes that physicians and care teams must follow in order to ensure decisions are made appropriately and that they are in the best interest of the patient,” Alineh Haidery said in an email to The Guardian.

The hospital, she wrote, follows a “recognized standard of practice” and criteria for neurological determination of death.

“At Osler, all neurological death determinations are determined by two experienced physicians in this field,” she wrote.