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.
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Will they also find out if the apartment is available and try to sublet it?
Just wait until they take the organs before the pt dies.
>> get the [ex-]person into a specialized ambulance
Ambulance? Why?
With all the ghoulish Obama-admin emphasis on “right to life” for those in their all important peak productive years, I figured they’d just flop Grandpa or Grandma up on the kitchen counter and take those valuable kidneys out right there in front of the family.
Better hope they don’t have quotas like planned parenthood. ;-)
Sounds similar to the Max Headroom TV show.
I am sure that is going to happen at some point.
Hey Chuck, grab that heart and that lung there, while you are at it.
I can see big problems in store for this outfit.
A loved one dies suddenly , and within 20 minutes the vultures arrive screaming for his/her organs?
CPR started and stopped in the home?
Things have changed a lot since I rode “the Box” but established procedures then were once you start CPR it continues until the Doctor at the hospital ends it, or the guy is breathing on his own.
A special team will monitor 9-1-1 calls about people in danger of dyingNew ways to expand the Death Panels.
There’s someone with a heart in Manhattan? Who knew!
If someone dies at home from whatever ailment, it is a pretty good bet that their kidneys are not in the best of shape.
“Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!
... Alright then: we’re coming in!”
LOL, they should try and collect the government’s death tax right then and there as well.
May God help me if I ever open my eyes and see that looking down on me on my gurney.
If I’m not already having a heart attack, I will launch ino one at that instant.
If they cared about lives, they could do 60 zillion others things.
This is all about getting us accustomed to macabre displays of gruesome materialism.
Like the airport pat-downs.
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