NYC Ambulance Equipped to Preserve Bodies
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 00:00 CDT
New York is equipping a new ambulance to preserve bodies until the family can be contacted about possible organ donation.
USA Today said crews would also perform procedures to preserve a person's organs until the families had time to give consent for donation.
The Rapid Organ Recovery Ambulance was developed after families complained they were unable to donate their loved ones' organs in cases of sudden death. The newspaper said an estimated 22,000 people each year don't get considered for organ donation because they died outside a hospital.
Performing procedures without consent is expected to be controversial.
It is very difficult to try to do what is right without doing harm, Nancy Dubler, director of bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center, told USA Today.
Source: United Press International
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