Special Episode: The Last Breath (Bedside Rounds)
The Curious Clinicians
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Heart Transplantation
The time point typically used to define irreversible loss of circulary function doesn't represent true irreversibility. The question becomes, are the patients who meet this permanent criteria actually dead? And i think many of you sang, well, ok, but why does this matter for o me as a clination? Well, the question becomes, when is it morally permissible to harvest a patient's heart transplantation and put it into someone else? Can we use time one, the permanent loss of circulatory functions, or must we wait for time two?
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