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A transplant planned, a transplant not done

April 8, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

A transplant planned, a transplant not done

Times have changed in how patients who are potential donors are considered to be dead and therefore able to be organ donors.
It used to be that you had to be brain dead, with no signs of brain activity, cardiac – heart – death wasn’t in the equation. This has changed an now those who are heart dead can be organ donors but the teams have to move fast for the organs to be viable.
I came across this story this morning of two families, two infants, and two sad stories. In a nutshell, one baby can’t live. She goes into cardiac …read more


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