Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kantrowitz team was prepared for delay in finding a donor with Block's blood type, AB, Rh positive. This is found in only about 5% of Americans. By extraordinary chance, the first potential donor reported to Maimonides was AB positive. She was Helen Krouch, 29, a New Jersey office worker who had seemed in perfect health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking...
...Possibly Donor Shortage...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...
Three Criteria. Surgeon Barnard was equally confident that the time of a prospective donor's death can be determined clearly enough to indicate when his heart may be taken, although the subject is technically complex. Under South African law, he said, a patient is dead when he has no reflexes, is no longer breathing, and his heart has stopped. The Groote SchuUr Hospital team faithfully applied these criteria in the case of Donor Denise Darvall. Certainly, said Barnard, he could have restarted her heart, but it would soon have stopped again because her brain was dead...
...heart. The animal heart has been used only once, in a case that illuminated both sides of the surgeon's dilemma. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. James D. Hardy had, on three occasions, a patient dying of brain injuries who would have been a suitable donor-but he had no recipient. Twice, when he had potential recipients of a transplant, he had no human donors. One candidate to receive a transplant, who seemed to be dying after a heart attack, bewildered the surgeons by getting well enough to go home. When the other was undeniably dying...