More organs are being donated after the heart stops, not brain death. Policies are changing too
WASHINGTON (AP) — The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they're increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost transplants but also raises public confusion, researchers reported Thursday. What’s called donation after circulatory death, or DCD, jumped dramatically in a short period: It accounted for 49% of all deceased donors in the U. S. last year, up from 2% in 2000. Technology has to to...
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- More organs are being donated after the heart stops, not brain death. Policies are changing too
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