Friday, June 7, 2019

Opioid epidemic increases proportion of hearts transplanted from overdose death donors

The confluence of two major health crises—the opioid epidemic and organ shortage—has moved surgeons to consider transplanting organs deemed as less than “perfect” in an effort to expand the donor pool and save more lives, according to research published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, published by Elsevier.

from https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190607/Opioid-epidemic-increases-proportion-of-hearts-transplanted-from-overdose-death-donors.aspx

from
https://healthnews010.tumblr.com/post/185427604733

From https://johnher1.blogspot.com/2019/06/opioid-epidemic-increases-proportion-of.html



from
https://johnher1.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/opioid-epidemic-increases-proportion-of-hearts-transplanted-from-overdose-death-donors/

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