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12-07-2010, 10:15 PM
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>The movie “Never Let Me Go” depicts a world in which children are cloned and bred to become organ donors. .. “the film is more about humanity's ability to look the other way. You know, in fact, that your morals can go out the window if you think you can survive in a certain way, whatever your morals may be," explained by actress, Keira Knightley, who starred in the movie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/nyregion/01organ.html?_r=1&src=me (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/nyregion/01organ.html?_r=1&src=me)<o:p></o:p>
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Some 911 calls in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City> will now bring out two ambulances, one hurrying to the scene and one lagging slightly behind. The first one will try to save the patient’s life. The second one will try to save the patient’s kidneys, in case the first ambulance fails. <o:p></o:p>
After months of grappling with the ethical and legal implications, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City> medical officials are beginning to test a system that they hope will one day greatly increase the number of organs collected for transplant. <o:p></o:p>
For five months starting Wednesday, the city will deploy a specially trained team that will monitor 911 calls for people who may be in danger of dying, like those having a heart attack. If efforts to resuscitate the patient fail, the team will quickly move in and try to save the kidneys; normally, patients who die outside hospitals cannot be donors because if too much time passes after the heart stops beating, the organs are unusable. <o:p></o:p>
City officials said the project would be the first of its kind in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>, though similar operations have been carried out in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. They said that they believed they had solved any ethical problems by adopting what they called very conservative standards for who would qualify as a donor. <o:p></o:p>
To overcome fears that patients would be allowed to die for the sake of their organs, officials said that doctors and paramedics trying to resuscitate a patient would not be told whether the preservation unit was waiting in the wings until a supervisor had given the order to stop rescue efforts. The organ team, which will travel in a bright red and white ambulance marked “Organ Preservation Unit,” is supposed to remain out of sight. <o:p></o:p>
The dead person would have to have registered as a donor through a card, driver’s license or online registry, and the family would also have to give consent. <o:p></o:p>
The trial, which is being financed with a $1.5 million federal grant, is limited: to most areas of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City>, to the hours of 4 p.m. to midnight, to adults between 18 and 60, and to people who die of cardiac arrest at home or another residence. <o:p></o:p>
To satisfy concerns that evidence of a crime could be destroyed in the harvesting process, a police detective sergeant would go to the home to be sure that there had been no foul play. <o:p></o:p>
Officials said they would not harvest organs from anybody who had been involved in a crime scene, whether a poisoning or stabbing or shooting. Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, director of emergency services at Bellevue Hospital Center, a city hospital, said that in a case of foul play, he thought it “highly unlikely there will be a loved one or authorized person in the room calling in to 911 and still staying there” when the police and organ preservation team arrived. <o:p></o:p>
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/nyregion/01organ.html?_r=1&src=me (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/nyregion/01organ.html?_r=1&src=me)<o:p></o:p>
Excerpt
Some 911 calls in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City> will now bring out two ambulances, one hurrying to the scene and one lagging slightly behind. The first one will try to save the patient’s life. The second one will try to save the patient’s kidneys, in case the first ambulance fails. <o:p></o:p>
After months of grappling with the ethical and legal implications, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City> medical officials are beginning to test a system that they hope will one day greatly increase the number of organs collected for transplant. <o:p></o:p>
For five months starting Wednesday, the city will deploy a specially trained team that will monitor 911 calls for people who may be in danger of dying, like those having a heart attack. If efforts to resuscitate the patient fail, the team will quickly move in and try to save the kidneys; normally, patients who die outside hospitals cannot be donors because if too much time passes after the heart stops beating, the organs are unusable. <o:p></o:p>
City officials said the project would be the first of its kind in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>, though similar operations have been carried out in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. They said that they believed they had solved any ethical problems by adopting what they called very conservative standards for who would qualify as a donor. <o:p></o:p>
To overcome fears that patients would be allowed to die for the sake of their organs, officials said that doctors and paramedics trying to resuscitate a patient would not be told whether the preservation unit was waiting in the wings until a supervisor had given the order to stop rescue efforts. The organ team, which will travel in a bright red and white ambulance marked “Organ Preservation Unit,” is supposed to remain out of sight. <o:p></o:p>
The dead person would have to have registered as a donor through a card, driver’s license or online registry, and the family would also have to give consent. <o:p></o:p>
The trial, which is being financed with a $1.5 million federal grant, is limited: to most areas of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:place></st1:City>, to the hours of 4 p.m. to midnight, to adults between 18 and 60, and to people who die of cardiac arrest at home or another residence. <o:p></o:p>
To satisfy concerns that evidence of a crime could be destroyed in the harvesting process, a police detective sergeant would go to the home to be sure that there had been no foul play. <o:p></o:p>
Officials said they would not harvest organs from anybody who had been involved in a crime scene, whether a poisoning or stabbing or shooting. Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, director of emergency services at Bellevue Hospital Center, a city hospital, said that in a case of foul play, he thought it “highly unlikely there will be a loved one or authorized person in the room calling in to 911 and still staying there” when the police and organ preservation team arrived. <o:p></o:p>