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What accident happened to Archie Battersbee?

Image source, Hollie Dance Image caption, Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, says she has been subjected to “vile” online abuse Archie Battersbee died accidentally following a “prank or experiment” that went wrong, a coroner concluded. Archie, 12, was found unconscious at the family home in Southend-on-Sea on 7 April.

1. He died four months later in August, following his parents’ legal battle with the NHS hospital treating him in London.
2. The coroner said there was no evidence he was doing an online challenge at the time, as his mother first believed.
3. Hollie Dance had asked Essex Police to look at her son Archie’s phone for any evidence he may have been taking part in a challenge.

No images or videos of Archie taking part in online challenges were found, a detective told the inquest. Senior Coroner for Essex, Lincoln Brookes, said he could not “rule out the possibility” that was what happened and nor could police, but he said a decision had to be made based on the evidence.

What online challenge was Archie doing?

The ‘ blackout challenge ‘ encourages people to film themselves hyperventilating until they pass out on social media, primarily on TikTok. The game essentially involves intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain, which has been labelled as dangerous by professionals.

What’s the news on Archie Battersbee?

Archie Battersbee is laid to rest : Funeral is played video of the 12-year-old singing as friends pay tribute to the schoolboy ‘who always had a smile on his face’ – after his life support was switched off when he suffered brain damage in TikTok.

What Tik Tok trend was Archie doing?

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Archie Battersbee died in August after a monthslong legal campaign by his parents. His mom, Hollie Dance, said she believes he participated in the purported TikTok blackout challenge. The Essex chief coroner said on Tuesday there was no evidence to support that claim.

Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. British authorities announced this week that there is no evidence yet to support claims that a 12-year-old child died from engaging in the so-called “blackout challenge” or that TikTok played a role in the death.

• The boy’s mother, Hollie Dance, had previously requested an investigation into the platform and social media’s influence.
• Archie Battersbee died in August after a monthslong legal battle in which his parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, tried to prevent the hospital from taking him off life support.

Dance originally found Archie suspended unconscious after playing with a dressing gown cord in their Essex county home in April and brought him to the hospital, as Insider previously reported. Archie was kept on life support after doctors declared that he was brain dead in June, and died after being removed from ventilation in August.

• His parents appealed multiple court decisions to remove him from the ventilator but were ultimately unsuccessful.
• Dance called the doctors’ removal of Archie from life support a “choreographed execution” of her son, according to The New York Times,
• Dance also believed TikTok was involved in her son’s death, according to The Guardian, and asked authorities to investigate the platform and make it an “interested party” in the case.

She said that in the weeks up to his initial brain injury, Archie told her that he knew how to make himself pass out. “He’d never caused me any alarm by putting anything around his neck or anything like that so this was a very new thing,” Dance said, according to The Guardian. Hollie Battersbee, pictured with her ex partner, Paul Battersbee, and other close family members, took her legal fight to the top courts in the U.K Getty Images But on Tuesday at a preliminary hearing for the case, Essex chief coroner Lincoln Brookes said there was no indication that Archie was participating in the so-called blackout challenge, The Guardian reported.

1. Authorities determined that Archie did access TikTok on the day of the incident, but were unable to see what he viewed.
2. Detective Inspector Sarah Weeks said in the hearing that photos and videos taken from Archie’s phone did not corroborate the idea that he was doing the trend, according to The Guardian.

Brookes did not respond to Insider’s request for comment. Authorities are reportedly preparing a report based on info from all of Archie’s electronics, including his phone, computer, and video game console, due in December. The full inquest will take place in the English city Chelmsford in February, according to the BBC,

Why did Archie turn blue?

Archie Battersbee “went completely blue” as his family watched his “barbaric” final moments after his life support was switched off, according to devastated family members. The 12-year-old died at 12.15pm on Saturday, August 6, his mother Hollie Dance confirmed outside the Royal London Hospital, Archie died at 12.15pm on Saturday, his mother Hollie Dance confirmed outside the Royal London Hospital (Image: haveyoursaystories) After his life-sustaining treatment was stopped yesterday after 10am, his eldest brother Tom’s fiancee Ella Rose Carter told reporters of the youngster’s heartbreaking final moments. Hollie Dance (left) with Ella Carter outside the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel (Image: PA) She continued: “He was taken off all medication at 10 o’clock. His entire stats remained completely stable for two hours until they reduced ventilation. “And then he went completely blue.” Doctors believed Archie was brain-stem dead and said continued life support was not in his best interests. Hollie Dance with her son Archie Battersbee in hospital (Image: PA) For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here, After an intense week of court hearings, campaign group Christian Concern announced on Friday night that Archie’s life-sustaining treatment would be withdrawn. A last-ditch plea to the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the case was rejected (Image: PA) After Archie passed, his mother Hollie Dance gave a moving tribute, saying: “In sadness, Archie passed at 12.15pm today. I would just like to say I am the proudest mum in the world.

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Did Archie Battersbee’s family say he has died after his life support was withdrawn?

Archie Battersbee, Gravely Ill 12-Year-Old, Dies After Removal of Life Support (Published 2022) The boy’s family had made several legal appeals to keep him on a ventilator, but judges in Britain sided with doctors in finding that he had no hope of recovery. Hollie Dance, second left, the mother of Archie Battersbee, was surrounded by family and friends outside the Royal London Hospital on Saturday as she spoke to the news media after his death. Credit. Aaron Chown/Press Association, via Associated Press Published Aug.6, 2022 Updated Aug.7, 2022 LONDON — Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old British boy whose life support was withdrawn after a legal battle between his parents and his doctors, died on Saturday, bringing to an end another wrenching case over who makes life and death decisions for a seriously ill child.

Archie had been in a deep coma since his mother found him unconscious at their home in Essex, in southeastern England, on April 7, with something tied around his neck. His mother, Hollie Dance, has said that he might have been taking part in an online challenge. “Can I just say I’m the proudest mum in the world — such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end,” said Ms.

Dance, speaking to reporters outside the Royal London Hospital, where Archie was being treated. “And I’m so proud to be his mum.” In a series of decisions, judges found that Archie had suffered severe brain damage and that the burdens of treating his condition “along with the total lack of a prospect of recovery” outweighed the benefits of continuing to keep him alive on a ventilator.

Archie’s family appealed the rulings, saying that they wanted to let him die at a time “chosen by God.” They argued that because of his Christian beliefs and of thoughts he had expressed in the past, Archie’s intention would have been to continue on life support. On Wednesday night, after unsuccessful appeals to three different courts in a week, the family asked for Archie to be transferred to a hospice.

Doctors at the hospital refused because of the risks attached to moving him, saying that they would most likely bring a “premature deterioration,” and the family’s legal efforts to overturn the decision were also turned down. Ms. Dance had called the decision by the doctors to schedule a time at which is life support would be pulled a “choreographed execution of my son.” She asked why parents “have their decisions and their rights taken away.” In Britain, when parents and doctors disagree about what is in the best interest of a child, a court is called on to decide.

• In recent years, similar high-profile cases have emerged, such as those of and,
• Pope Francis weighed in on both of those cases, and Donald J.
• Trump, when he was president, offered help from the United States for the 11-month-old Charlie.
• Experts said that such painful dilemmas reflected a shift from when doctors made the final call, with the decisions seen as not just medical but also ethical.

If parents disagree with doctors, almost impossible questions are posed, such as what kind of life is worth living and how grave a child’s condition has to be before it is deemed there is no chance of recovery. In Archie’s case, doctors said that they believed his brainstem was dead.

• Because of the lack of response, however, doctors could not perform full brainstem testing, so he had not been legally declared brain-dead.
• Archie Battersbee. Credit.
• Hollie Dance, via Associated Press In hearings, judges sided with the medical evidence backing the conclusion that Archie had no prospect of recovery.

They ruled that the medical support “serves only to protract his death, whilst being unable to prolong his life,” according to court documents. Ms. Dance has said that Archie’s condition was better than that described to the court by the doctors. She said that he had shown signs of improvement, adding that he had even squeezed her hand.

Archie’s father, Paul Battersbee, has kept a lower profile during the legal battles, but he has supported the efforts to continue life support. Dominic Wilkinson, a professor of medical ethics at Oxford University, said that the issue came down to a fundamental question. “It’s about what is medicine for,” he said.

” It is to make us better, to make us able to live and enjoy our lives. But sometimes all that medicine can do is to prolong the dying phase. And sometimes medicine, frankly, does more harm than good.”

But, he added, on this topic, doctors and families sometimes disagreed.”Families sometimes may want to prolong life at all costs,” he said, “while the health professionals recognize that medicine has reached its natural limits.”The leader of a Christian group that has been supporting the family’s case said such decisions should be recalibrated.

“The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues, including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family,” Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the group, the Christian Legal Center, said in a statement.

• No one wants to see other families experience what they have been through.
• We need to see urgent review and reform of the system.” Last week, after the British Supreme Court to postpone the withdrawal of life support, Ms.
• Dance made an application to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, a branch of the organization’s human rights agency.

The family’s legal efforts included an appeal to the British Supreme Court, but the request was turned down. Credit. Matt Dunham/Associated Press The agency said that it had asked the British government to refrain from withdrawing treatment while the case was under its consideration.

“All we have ever asked for is for more time,” Ms. Dance said in a statement at the time. “The urgency from the hospital and the courts is unexplained.” “I don’t believe there is anything ‘dignified’ about planning Archie’s death,” she added. “Parents need support not pressure.” But on Monday, the court refused to extend a pause beyond midday on Tuesday, arguing that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, under which the United Nations committee had made its request, was an “unincorporated international treaty” and that the decision to withdraw life support could stand.

The family asked on Tuesday to appeal the decision at the Supreme Court, but the request was turned down. The following morning, they filed an application to the European Court of Human Rights, which declined to intervene. On Saturday, a little more than two hours after his life support was withdrawn, Archie died.

• There is absolutely nothing dignified about watching a family member or a child suffocate,” said Ella Carter, a family friend.
• No family should ever have to go through what we’ve been through,” she said, before breaking down in tears and burying her head in the shoulder of Archie’s mother.
• Euan Ward contributed reporting.

A version of this article appears in print on, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Gravely Ill 12-Year-Old Dies in Britain After Life Support Is Withdrawn, | | : Archie Battersbee, Gravely Ill 12-Year-Old, Dies After Removal of Life Support (Published 2022)

What are the risks of the blackout challenge?

What is the ‘blackout challenge’? – Also known as the “pass-out game” or the “choking game”, the challenge “involves teenagers depriving themselves of oxygen to achieve a high, which causes them to lose consciousness and faint”, the reported. Dr Nick Flynn, a GP in Cork, told the paper that the risks associated with the challenge include fainting, seizures and potentially fatal brain damage.

• He explained that lack of oxygen to the brain resulting from such asphyxiation is “similar to when someone is drowning, choking, or having a cardiac arrest”.
• If you have low oxygen to the brain for over three minutes, you can get brain damage and if you have low oxygen to the brain for over five minutes, it can result in death,” Flynn said.

Although similar dares have been around for many years, the blackout challenge has recently resurfaced – and been linked to a series of tragedies. In July, two parents sued the social network in the US, “claiming its ‘dangerous’ algorithms are to blame for their children’s deaths”, reported.

The parents of the girls – eight-year-old Lalani Erika Walton, from Texas, and nine-year-old Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, from Wisconsin – were represented by the, a legal resource for families of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse. The lawsuit claimed that “at all times relevant, TikTok’s algorithm was designed to promote ‘TikTok Challenges’ to young users to increase their engagement and maximise TikTok’s profits”.

Doctor Reacts: Archie Battersbee dies after Life Support Turned Off

The platform is also being sued by the family of a ten-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, whose death was linked to the blackout challenge. After the wrongful death lawsuit was filed in May, a TikTok spokesperson told that the “disturbing ‘challenge’, which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend”.

• We remain vigilant in our commitment to user safety and would immediately remove related content if found,” the spokesperson said, adding that the company had made it impossible to search for videos using the hashtag #BlackoutChallenge.
• But the mother of British schoolboy Archie Battersbee told last month that “the social media companies don’t do enough to stop harmful content online”.

“It’s out there and people are grooming our children to do these challenges, it’s disgusting,” said Hollie Dance, who found Archie unconscious with a ligature round his neck at their home in Southend, Essex, in April. He was in a coma for four months before his life support was turned off on 6 August, after his parents lost their legal battle to keep him alive.

What is the TikTok challenge that hurt Archie?

What is TikTok blackout challenge? Craze that may have caused Archie Battersbee & Leon Brown deaths explained. Archie Battersbee is thought to have attempted the online ligature challenge which left him ‘brain-stem dead’ after an accident.

Why did Archie Battersbee not have a brain stem test?

Not diagnosed in the usual way – In Archie’s case, brain stem testing, according to the UK code of practice, was not possible because when he was tested with a, his muscles did not respond. The UK doctors who examined Archie could not diagnose brain death in the usual way.

• But the code of practice allows other tests to be used where standard testing is not possible.
• These extra tests may, for example, show that the blood supply to the brain has stopped (if there is no blood going to the brain, there is no possibility of brain function).
• Or they may show an absence of electrical activity.

In Archie’s case,, On April 15, a magnetic resonance angiogram showed no blood flow in any of the blood vessels in the brain. This was also seen in a repeat CT scan of the brain on May 11 and in another MRI on May 31. The scans also showed visible evidence of necrosis (death) of part of the brain stem.

How long can a brain dead person live off life support?

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) – ECMO is also called extracorporeal life support (ECLS). This is due to the machine’s ability to do the job of either just the lungs (veno-venous ECMO) or both the heart and the lungs (veno-arterial ECMO). It’s especially used in infants who have underdeveloped cardiovascular or respiratory systems due to serious disorders.

Children and adults can also need ECMO. ECMO is often a treatment used after other methods have failed, but it can certainly be quite effective. As a person’s own heart and lungs strengthen, the machine can be turned down to allow the person’s body to take over. In some cases, ECMO may be used earlier in treatment to prevent damage to the lungs from high ventilator settings.

Doctors start life support when it’s clear your body needs help to support your basic survival. This could be because of:

organ failureblood lossan infection that’s become septic

If you’ve left written instructions that you don’t want to be put on life support, the doctor won’t start the process. There are two common types of instructions:

do not resuscitate (DNR)allow natural death (AND)

With a DNR, you won’t be revived or given a breathing tube in the event that you stop breathing or experience cardiac arrest. With AND, the doctor will let nature take its course even if you need medical intervention to stay alive. Every effort will be made to keep you comfortable and pain-free, however.

With life support technology, we have the ability to keep people alive much longer than we used to. But there are cases where difficult decisions about life support may rest with a person’s loved ones. Once the brain activity of a person stops, there’s no chance of recovery. In cases where there’s no brain activity detected, a doctor may recommend turning off a respirator machine and stopping artificial nutrition.

The doctor will conduct several tests to be completely certain there’s no chance of recovery before making this recommendation. After turning off life support, a person who’s brain-dead will die within minutes, because they won’t be able to breathe on their own.

If a person is in a permanent vegetative state but not brain-dead, their life support likely consists of fluids and nutrition. If these are stopped, it may take anywhere from a few hours to several days for the person’s vital organs to shut down completely. When you consider whether to turn off life support, there are many individual factors at play.

You may wish to think about what the person would have wanted. This is called substituted judgment, Another option is to consider what’s in the best interest of your loved one and try to make a decision based on that. No matter what, these decisions are intensely personal.

They’ll also vary according to the medical condition of the person in question. There really are no reliable metrics for the percentage of people who live after life support is administered or withdrawn. The underlying causes of why people go on life support and the age they are when life support is needed makes it impossible to statistically calculate outcomes.

But we do know that certain underlying conditions have good long-term outcomes even after a person has been put on life support. Statistics suggest that people who need CPR after a cardiac arrest can make a full recovery. This is especially true if the CPR they receive is given properly and immediately.

1. After time spent on a mechanical ventilator, life expectancy predictions become harder to understand.
2. When you’re on a mechanical respirator as part of an end-of-life situation for a long period of time, your chances of surviving without it begin to decrease.
3. A high proportion of people do survive being taken off a ventilator under a doctor’s advice.

What happens after that varies according to diagnosis. In fact, a review of the research available concluded that more studies about long-term outcomes for people who were on a mechanical ventilator are needed. No one wants to feel like “it’s all up to them” as they make a decision about life support for a loved one.

1. It’s one of the most difficult and emotional situations that you may find yourself in.
2. Remember that it’s not the decision to remove life support that will cause your loved one to pass away; it’s the underlying health condition.
3. That condition isn’t caused by you or your decision.
4. Talking to other family members, a hospital chaplain, or a therapist is critical in times of grief and stressful decision-making.

Don’t be pressured to make a decision about life support you or the person you’re making it for wouldn’t be comfortable with.

Why did Archie move to hospice?

Archie Battersbee’s parents given until 9am for hospice bid or life support will end

• A hospital has given ‘s parents until 9am on Thursday to launch a High Court bid to move him to a hospice otherwise his life support will be turned off at 11am.
• It comes after the (ECHR) refused an application by Archie’s parents to postpone the withdrawal of his life support.
• Archie, 12, has been kept alive by ventilation and medication since he was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.
• His mother Hollie Dance believes that he may have been attempting an online challenge when he suffered brain damage.
• Doctors were preparing to switch off his life support at 11am on Wednesday, but it was postponed pending the ECHR’s decision after Ms Dance and Archie’s father Paul Battersbee made a last-minute application to the Strasbourg-based court at 9am.
• In a number of challenges at the UK’s highest courts, the parents sought to override the decision of doctors at the Royal London Hospital, who said that it’s “highly likely” Archie is brain-stem dead and it’s in his best interest for the life support to end.

Archie Battersbee with his mother Hollie Dance But shortly after 6.30pm on Wednesday, the ECHR said it refused the parents’ request, adding that it would not “interfere with the decisions of the national courts to allow the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from to proceed”. Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial “Hospices are well and truly designed for palliative and respite care. Archie is now obviously on palliative care so there is no reason whatsoever for him not to take his last moments at a hospice. The hospice has said that they will take him.”

1. The trust said: “Any application will be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis.”
2. It added that it “continues to put Archie’s welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care.
3. “It believes that Archie’s condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.”

The European court has refused Archie’s parents’ application

• Earlier, after the ECHR ruling, Ms Dance suggested when speaking to reporters outside Royal London Hospital that the legal battle over Archie’s life support was over.
• She said she “won’t allow” anything to be done to Archie before his father returns to his bedside at the hospital on Thursday, and vowed to “fight” to get her son moved to a hospice.
• After being asked whether this defeat felt different, Ms Dance said: “It’s the end, it was the last thing, wasn’t it, and again our country has failed a 12-year-old child.”
• In an earlier statement, she called the decision “another heart-breaking development”.
• In a statement, she said: “The NHS, the government and the courts in this country and in Europe may have given up on treating him – but we have not.

“The whole system has been stacked against us. Reform must now come through Charlie’s Law so that no parents have to go through this. “In a worst-case scenario, we want to take Archie to a hospice, but the hospital has said that we cannot do that despite previous promises.

1. Ms Dance also restated that they had been contacted by doctors in Japan and Italy regarding her son’s condition, adding: “Why can’t we give him a chance?”
2. Archie’s family’s application to the ECHR came after the Court of Appeal ruled that Archie’s treatment should not continue beyond noon on Tuesday.
3. The Supreme Court backed its decision on the same day, with judges saying that they have “great sympathy” for Archie’s parents but that there’s “no prospect of any meaningful recovery”.
4. Archie’s parents had filed an application directly with the Supreme Court – after the Court of Appeal refused to do so.
5. They asked the UK’s highest court to allow his treatment to continue so the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) could have time to consider the appeal that was made last week.

: Archie Battersbee’s parents given until 9am for hospice bid or life support will end