Australian surgeons said Friday, October 24, they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in what they said was a world first that could change the way organs are donated. Doctors at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute have developed a technique which means hearts which had been still for 20 minutes can be resuscitated, kept beating and transplanted into a patient.
Read more about this major milestone in cardiac surgery on Rappler.
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