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Date Time ‘Five-minute rule’ holds true for cardiac death of organ donors: study A Canadian-led research project has confirmed that it is safe to procure organs for transplant from dying patients once the heart has stopped for a full five minutes, in newly published findings in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers monitored blood pressure and electrocardiographic (ECG) waveforms in 631 dying patients following the removal of life-supporting equipment and medication in 20 intensive care units in Canada, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. On average it took an hour for ...
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29 JANUARY 2021 Giving up the organs of a loved one while their final breath still lingers in the air remains one of the most emotional decisions any person would have to make. The findings of a new study on the dying process might not make the call any less painful, but it just might help some of us sleep a little easier at night, while fostering trust with the doctors overseeing our final moments. Working closely with the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, doctors from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario measured cardiac activity and blood pressure at hundred...
Doctors Studied People's Last Moments of Life to Figure Out When Death Begins Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) New research suggests that doctors are, thankfully, skilled at correctly identifying a person’s time of death—a crucial aspect of ensuring healthy organs for donation. At the same time, the body can sometimes show flitters of cardiac activity even after death has become truly irreversible, according to the study published in the New England of Medicine. Advertisement There’s no shortage of morbid curiosity surrounding death. But according to the researchers behind this project, ...