Paranoid New Yorkers will have a new reason for apprehension..
NY Times
City to Deploy Ambulances to Save Organs
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: December 1, 2010
Quote:
For five months starting Wednesday, the city will deploy a specially trained team
that will monitor 911 calls for people who may be in danger of dying, like those having a heart attack.
If efforts to resuscitate the patient fail, the team will quickly move in and try to save the kidneys;
normally, patients who die outside hospitals cannot be donors because
if too much time passes after the heart stops beating, the organs are unusable.
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So if you are in NY City, don't call 911 for help until after June 1, 2011