Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Centralizing organ removal may benefit transplants

In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 photo, organ procurement coordinators Lindsey Cook, left, and Josh Skelton work with the body of a potential organ donor at Mid-America Transplant Services in St. Louis. Organ donors are brought to the facility from nearby states in an effort to bring donors to doctors rather than the other way around. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis) For decades, surgeons have traveled to far-off hospitals to remove organs from brain-dead donors and then rushed back to transplant them. Now an experiment in the Midwest suggests there may be a better way: Bring the donors to the doctors instead.








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