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'Dead' patient comes around as organs are being removed

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France may have to reconsider its medical definition of death after a heart-attack victim came alive in the operating theatre as doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant.

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Other doctors have seen similar incidents, according to the ethics committee report. "During the meeting, other reanimators ... spoke of situations in which a person whom everyone was sure had died in fact survived after reanimation efforts that went on much longer than usual," the report said. "Participants conceded that these were exceptional cases, but ones that were nevertheless seen in the course of a career."

Now see this one Q: will the "bodies" in the special ambulances always be dead or will they be "helped along" to fulfill the need for transplants?

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Reply#1 - Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:35 AM EDT
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