Posted on 12/04/2010 9:44:18 AM PST by traumer
It might sound a little disturbing to some people but a new pilot program will attempt to recover kidneys from people who die at home in Manhattan.
A team of organ specialists will have about 20-minutes after a cardiac-arrest patient is declared dead to arrive at the home, check a donor registry, determine medical eligibility, obtain a family member's consent and get the person into a specialized ambulance.
A special team will monitor 9-1-1 calls about people in danger of dying and they will travel directly to a person's home without being summoned.
The program is being launched Wednesday. It could eventually lead to thousands more organs donated each year. But the five-month trial, a collaboration between Bellevue Hospital and New York City's police and fire departments, could be declared a success without a single organ being recovered, organizers say.
It's being called the Organ Donation Unit. It is being funded by a $1.5 million grant from the U. S. Department of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA),
The team — composed of two EMTs, an organ donor family services specialist and a Bellevue emergency physician — will interact with grieving and shocked family members in the limited time available before it is too late to use a person's organs. A police detective will arrive at the scene before the team to make sure there's nothing about the death that warrants a criminal investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
Grave robbery is now public service.
What will they do if he is still breathing...?
That was my first thought. What if he's not dead yet? Sure, they supposedly will have a physician with them but that's just the fox guarding the hen house.
...details.
I was so going to post this but thought maybe I’d scroll down first and see if someone beat me to it... it is the first thing I thought of... meanwhile one of my favorite Monty Python’s. Cracks me up every time.
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Holy cow.
The reason the government can force you to purchase medical insurance is because THEY OWN YOUR BODY, and expect you to pay for any damages you inflict upon it.
And since we have established that they own your body, they also own the component parts and expect you to make them available for resale by them as soon as possible.
This is stranger than fiction.
Scene 2
MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
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Bring out your dead!
CUSTOMER: Here’s one — nine pence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
MORTICIAN: What?
CUSTOMER: Nothing — here’s your nine pence.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not dead!
MORTICIAN: Here — he says he’s not dead!
CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.
DEAD PERSON: I’m not!
MORTICIAN: He isn’t.
CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
DEAD PERSON: I’m getting better!
CUSTOMER: No, you’re not — you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
MORTICIAN: Oh, I can’t take him like that — it’s against regulations.
DEAD PERSON: I don’t want to go in the cart!
CUSTOMER: Oh, don’t be such a baby.
MORTICIAN: I can’t take him...
DEAD PERSON: I feel fine!
CUSTOMER: Oh, do us a favor...
MORTICIAN: I can’t.
CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won’t
be long.
MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson’s — they’ve lost nine
today.
CUSTOMER: Well, when is your next round?
MORTICIAN: Thursday.
DEAD PERSON: I think I’ll go for a walk.
CUSTOMER: You’re not fooling anyone y’know. Look, isn’t there
something you can do?
DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy.
[whop]
CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much.
MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
CUSTOMER: Right.
[clop clop]
MORTICIAN: Who’s that then?
CUSTOMER: I don’t know.
MORTICIAN: Must be a king.
CUSTOMER: Why?
MORTICIAN: He hasn’t got sh@! all over him.
This sounds so, oh, I don’t know, Red Chinese.
That was so funny, thanks.
Oooh, you beat me to it!
Imagine the assaults this is going to cause, when these people come to the door within 20 minutes of a family members death.
That hasn’t changed.
” If someone dies at home from whatever ailment, it is a pretty good bet that their kidneys are not in the best of shape.”
Bingo.
And who dies at home ?
Someone with a chronic illness or an overdose.
” Donors will need to be between the ages of 18 and 60 who die of heart attacks. “
Without an autopsy..how do they determine it was a heart attack ??
And if someone previously in good health suddenly collapses that should require further investigation.
And a prolonged CPR.
” Of the roughly 50,000 people who died of all causes last year in downstate New York area hospitals,
only about 600 were judged eligible to donate their organs.
Of those, only 261 became donors,...”
Organ donation is an incredible life saving and extending procedure that is making great advances every year..
well, until Barrycare snuffs it.
But, there is something rushed and creepy and fraught with potential problems about this organ wagon.
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