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Transplant Surgeons Use Heart that Stopped Beating

posted by azrael on Sunday October 26 2014, @08:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the operating-during-a-storm dept.

jbWolf writes:

BBC News has a story about a novel transplant.

Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart". Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating. A team at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney revived and then transplanted hearts that had stopped beating for up to 20 minutes.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @11:32PM (#110379)

    I wonder if, as a healthy person giving away his heart, you could live long enough to give the new owner a hand shake and a personal "good luck, don't fuck this chance up" message.

    Man I so want Robocop arms ...