Dec 5, 2014 02:54
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A doctor says to a patient who is in urgent need of a heart transplant: "This is great news. We all just met. We've gone over your biopsy results. We're **listing you for a heart transplant today**. It's a big day for you."
Does it mean that the operation will be conducted today or that he has been only included in the waiting list today?
Thank you.
A doctor says to a patient who is in urgent need of a heart transplant: "This is great news. We all just met. We've gone over your biopsy results. We're **listing you for a heart transplant today**. It's a big day for you."
Does it mean that the operation will be conducted today or that he has been only included in the waiting list today?
Thank you.
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Sheri P
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It means that the team of doctors has decided the patient meets the criteria to be put on a waiting list to receive a donor heart. It can take days, weeks, months, even years for the surgery to take place once the patient has been put on the list. In the US, when a patient is placed on the national waiting list to receive a transplant, it is said that he or she is "listed for transplant." See the following link:
http://www.pennmedicine.org/transplant/patient-care/transpla...
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Note added at 10 hrs (2014-12-05 13:20:33 GMT)
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The link above appears not to be working. Here is what it says:
"If the heart transplant team decides that transplant is the best option and patients agree, patients are then "listed for transplant." This involves being placed on the national waiting list maintained by the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)."
http://www.pennmedicine.org/transplant/patient-care/transpla...
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Note added at 10 hrs (2014-12-05 13:20:33 GMT)
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The link above appears not to be working. Here is what it says:
"If the heart transplant team decides that transplant is the best option and patients agree, patients are then "listed for transplant." This involves being placed on the national waiting list maintained by the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)."
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Comment: "Thank you, Sheri."
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