MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI) -- Australian health administrators are considering preparing organ donors for transplants while they are still alive, it was reported Sunday. The Sunday Age said the Australian Health Ethics Committee is seeking to extend transplant preparations to living patients who are certain to die when the heart and circulation stop. Currently, only brain-dead patients are prepared for organ transplants. New procedures would involve inserting tubes into major arteries to prepare for cleansing of organs after death, blood tests and administering drugs to better preserve organs. AECH spokesman Peter Joseph said extending the procedures to living patients was necessary...
