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Bob Feldtman's avatar

I think the equipment, etc is fine. The problem is the donor themselves. With a heart recipient hovering over the grave with a 12% ejection fraction - they may not care.. But as one readers points out, what a disaster it would be if one was injured suddenly in a car wreck or a fall and required emergency surgery and transfusion and then gets AIDS or COVID issues or Hep C.. Realize that you will have had to sign for blood (or your relative). I have operated on Jehovah's witnesses doing heart surgery on them with no blood transfusions. Some sects of that religion- will allow the use of cardiopulmonary bypass for heart surgery, but once the pump stops, one may not restart it again and no blood may be removed and processed out of the pump like I have described. Don't ask me to explain, cause I don't understand either. But - I have followed the family request for the patient.

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Sun's avatar

BIG business waiting to happen. People would pay to avoid that situation. Similar to unvaxxed pilots.

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