Posted on 06/06/2012 5:12:34 AM PDT by Daffynition
The severe shortage of viable organs for transplantation in the U.S. has led a transplant surgeon to propose harvesting kidneys from people who are not dead yet.
Dr. Paul Morrissey, an associate professor of surgery at Brown University's Alpert Medical School, wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics that the protocol known as donation after cardiac death -- meaning death as a result of irreversible damage to the cardiovascular system -- has increased the number of organs available for transplant, but has a number of limitations, including the need to wait until the heart stops.
Because of the waiting time, Morrissey said that about one-third of potential donors end up not being able to donate, and many organs turn out to not be viable as a result.
Instead, he argues in favor of procuring kidneys from patients with severe irreversible brain injury whose families consent to kidney removal before their cardiac and respiratory systems stop functioning.
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You go Mengele!
To a Obamanite, we are spare parts.....
Free country and you can do what you want but being an organ donor is a truly good thing to do after your die and tens of thousands of people have been helped by others tragic deaths. A college classmate was killed in a a car accident last year and she was an organ donor. Her parents have already met 2 of the people whose lives were saved by her organs and it helped them cope with her loss.
Hope people don't get put off by these stories.
Just curious...if you need a life saving organ are you going to want it or decline it?
Cloning would be more ethical than removing organs from still living people...
Then cook his liver and eat it with a good chianti.
Ghoul.
The book “Coma” was a warning, not an instruction manual.
Is that Mostly Dead or All Dead?
Once you reach my age, they don’t want my insides...I am using them up fast. Grow old and screw them all.....
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