Surgeons won't have to wait to make sure a heart has stopped beating before harvesting organs under new guidelines

Surgeons won't have to wait to make sure a heart has stopped beating before harvesting organs under new guidelines




By Daily Mail Reporter



Last updated at 6:27 PM on 20th September 2011



Comments (10) Add to My Stories Share Surgeons retrieving organs to be transplanted just after a patient's heart has stopped beating will no longer have to wait to make sure it doesn't start up again if new proposals are adopted.



At present when doctors are retrieving organs they have to wait at least two minutes to ensure it doesn't spontaneously start again.

Critics now fear seriously ill patients could be viewed more like tissue banks than sick people if the plans to change rules about organ donation go ahead





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