{"id":165348,"date":"2023-06-08T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/reanimated-hearts-work-as-well-for-transplants-and-could-make-more-organs-available-for-patients-in-need-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-06-08T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:22:24","slug":"reanimated-hearts-work-as-well-for-transplants-and-could-make-more-organs-available-for-patients-in-need-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/reanimated-hearts-work-as-well-for-transplants-and-could-make-more-organs-available-for-patients-in-need-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Reanimated hearts work as well for transplants and could make more organs available for patients in need, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reanimated-hearts-work-as-well-for-transplants-and-could-make-more-organs-available-for-patients-in-need-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the only people considered to be suitable organ donors were those who have been declared brain-dead but whose hearts and other organs have continued to function.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another group that would be willing to donate if survival wasn\u2019t possible: people who may have severe brain injuries but who are not brain-dead. In these cases, people are considered deceased when their hearts stop beating after withdrawal of life support, also called circulatory death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death. Traditionally, the only people considered to be suitable organ donors were those who have been declared brain-dead but whose hearts and other organs have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}