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Sat 1 Oct, 2011 08:48 am
What does the title mean? Does it mean "those who, although still on life support. eventually die anyways?"
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Many residents of China might have benefited from kidney, liver, and other forms of transplantation. But the rapid expansion of the capacity to do transplantations has not been accompanied by the development of an ethical system for recovering organs from those who die in hospitals while on life support, as is international practice.2 And even though there is an inadequate supply of organs for its own citizens, there remains a brisk traffic to China to secure organ transplants. Transplant “tourists” find their way to China, frustrated by the long waiting times in their own countries and attracted by the competitive price.3
Life support mean artificial means of keeping the organs alive. Machines can mimick the heart beat and respiration for a body that is really brain dead. Organs can be harvested then. Probably the sentence should say "after beiing on life support."
@oristarA,
People can be declared "brain dead" while still on life support. Here, the next of kin decides whether to remove the patient from life support and gives guidance on harvesting/donating the organs for transplant.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
What does the title mean? Does it mean "those who, although still on life support. eventually die anyways?"
In the USA, it means the patient's heart stopped beating, while he/she was on a respirator for maintaining ventillation of the lungs ( that is life support ).
Once the heart stops beating, the patient is said to be dead and the tubing is disconnected from the respirator.
@JPB,
People (Bush) also can be declared brain dead whilst in office in Wash DC.
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