Summary
When someone dies in an emergency room, his or her organs almost never are transplanted, a problem that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are working to overcome.
Doctors must declare the person dead, wait an appropriate amount of time to confirm the death and only then can start determining whether the person agreed to be an organ donor. At best, the process of starting to save the organs takes at least 10 to 15 minutes, and often much longer, said Dr. Clifton Callaway, UPMC's vice chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.See the full content of this document
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Study Tries to Spur Emergency Room Organ Donation
"There is a lot of time built into it, and that's a piece that we do on purpose so we have no medical uncertainty," Callaway said.
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