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The controversial twist: Crews would swoop in and perform procedures on a corpse without consent in order to preserve the organs until the family had time to give consent for organ donation. No organs would be taken without consent.
The goal of the program, which has federal funding and is being watched closely by the nation's other emergency medicine and transplant teams, is to buy time.
Most organs today come from either living donors who give a kidney or part of their healthy liver or from people pronounced brain dead in the hospital while their hearts are still beating. Both scenarios give time to obtain family consent.
About half of the 12,000 people nationally who are eligible to donate organs after brain death become organ donors. But a much larger pool of potential donors who die from cardiac arrest outside the hospital — an estimated 22,000 people a year — don't get considered for organ donation.
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May 08, 2008 at 08:16 PM Anonymous Says:
So instead of concentrating on saving the poor guy, these EMTs will be instructed to watch for any sign he's really dying and pilfer his organs...
sounds great....
i wonder how it was done in Sdom
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May 08, 2008 at 11:07 PM Anonymous Says:
This is major Bizoin hames
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May 09, 2008 at 12:27 AM Anonymous Says:
Is it still bizayon hames if it saves someone else's life?
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May 09, 2008 at 12:55 AM Mark Levin Says:
I cant wait for the first law suit!
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May 09, 2008 at 10:02 AM North Jersey Hatzolah EMT Says:
I would guess what they are going to do is have a machine provide CPR and hook up a ventilator to patients already declared totally dead. This would preserve the organs of an already dead man by pumping blood and oxygenating them. It doesn't sound like they are actually going to harvest any organs or damage the body in any way. A side effect of this may be that patient's thought to be dead, may come back to life (there are stories of people declared dead who due to some EMT or doctor's heroic effort suddenly came back after extended CPR, long after they were thought to be dead).