In Australian the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney have made a quite remarkable breakthrough in heart surgery. It would seem that in the week just gone they have successfully transplanted hearts that had stopped beating.
This is without doubt a ground-breaking a world first that could well herald a global change to the way organs are donated and used, because up to now those transplant surgeons have only been able to use still-beating hearts of donors who have been declared brain dead.
These organs are rapidly harvested and then packed with ice en route to the transplant theatre but this amazing surgical team managed to develop a brand-new technique whereby hearts which had not
This is without doubt a ground-breaking a world first that could well herald a global change to the way organs are donated and used, because up to now those transplant surgeons have only been able to use still-beating hearts of donors who have been declared brain dead.
These organs are rapidly harvested and then packed with ice en route to the transplant theatre but this amazing surgical team managed to develop a brand-new technique whereby hearts which had not