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The heart is placed on ice prior to a transplant because your heart could get damaged if it gets too hot.

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What is the procedure performed prior to an organ transplant from one individual to another?

tissue typing


What should be discussed between patient and doctor prior to transplant surgery?

How many pancreas or pancreas-kidney transplants have both you and the hospital performed?What are your success rates?How about those of the hospital?Who will be on my transplant team?


Where can the declaration of a function be placed?

The declaration of a function can be placed at, or anywere before its definition. It also needs to be placed prior to its first use.


Why must organs be preserve in a special solutions prior to their transplant?

Otherwise they degrade in quality very quickly, rendering them useless.


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a church truck


Why must organ be preserved in special solution prior to their transplant?

If it wasn't placed in a solution, germs and very harmful bacteria would attack it and the organ would die.


Who performed the first successful lung transplant?

The first lung transplant was attempted by Dr. Hardy at the University of Mississippi in 1964. This was not a successful procedure. The first long-term success with single lung transplantation was performed by the team at the University of Toronto Thoracic Surgery Group in Toronto, Canada (at the Toronto General Hospital) in 1983. The Toronto group also performed the first successful double lung transplant in 1986. Prior to that, the Stanford University group performed the first successful heart-lung transplant.


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Prior to mummification the organs were placed in 4 canopic jars. One each for the stomach, lungs, liver and intestines. The heart was kept inside the boday as ancient Egyptians believed this was the seat of the soul so it was left in the body. The organs were placed in the canopic jars as the Egyptians felt they would be needed in the afterlife, so they were not mummified.


What restrictions are placed on a patient prior to a Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure?

Patients undergoing a Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz procedure must not eat or drink for eight hours prior to the surgery.


Why were the samples of table salt and sand placed into beakers prior to weighing?

The purpose is to avoid the contamination of the balance or of the sample.