> It apparently takes several hours. I'd been there
> for almost two hours before they made the call to cancel it, so that
> was the approximate time the doc was actually able to observe the
> donor organ. I guess they really got to move fast to switch it from
> one body to the next.
>
Yeah, they've really gotta hustle once it's out of the body. The
pancreas especially, that organ is such a royal pain. It's less a
distinct organ, and more a sort of watery goo that more or less stays
in one elongated blob, held together largely by all the different
ducts running through it.
I became intimately familiar with the little bastards after quite a
few rodent dissections, where we were harvesting organs. bleh.
-SirFox
Received on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 09:21:48 CST