Project to get transplant organs from ER patients raises ethics ...

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Sun, 03/14/2010 - 22:00

In the hope of expanding a controversial form of organ donation into emergency rooms around the United States, a federally funded project has begun trying to obtain kidneys, livers and possibly other body parts from car-accident victims, heart-attack fatalities and other urgent-care patients.


 

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