A team of doctors in Denver are facing ethical questions after it was revealed that they had gone ahead and removed hearts of dying babies after their hearts had stopped beating for less that 75 seconds.
The standard waiting time recommended by the Institute of Medicine for organ harvesting after the heart stops beating is 5 minutes though exceptions can be made if the patient is brain dead. However doctors from Denver had waited just three minutes before harvesting the heart from one patient and less than 75 seconds in two patients between 2004 and 2007.
About Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
"Adding an additional two, three or five minutes, or even 75 seconds, does add some additional injury. It could be 10 percent," he said.
A detailed report is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Bone Marrow Transplantation
Animation and slides providing graphic explanation of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Stem Cell Transplantation that is done for leukemia and other blood-related disorders.
Animation and slides providing graphic explanation of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Stem Cell Transplantation that is done for leukemia and other blood-related disorders.
