Untapped pool of deceased organ donors prompts calls for change in ICUs

By Kate Aubusson
Updated October 6 2017 - 10:03am, first published September 24 2017 - 8:29pm
The Age, Goodweekend, photo by Justin McManus, 27/01/2016. Renal Surgery at Melbourne Private Hospital. Surgeons Amanda Robertson (Head of Nephrology Surgery Royal Melbourne Hospital) and Tim Furlong ( Renal Transplant Surgeon RMH) perform renal surgery on a husband and wife. The wife donated her kidney to her husband. Amanda working on the donor kidney.

GW - feb 20
The Age, Goodweekend, photo by Justin McManus, 27/01/2016. Renal Surgery at Melbourne Private Hospital. Surgeons Amanda Robertson (Head of Nephrology Surgery Royal Melbourne Hospital) and Tim Furlong ( Renal Transplant Surgeon RMH) perform renal surgery on a husband and wife. The wife donated her kidney to her husband. Amanda working on the donor kidney. GW - feb 20

Libby Lynch remembers clawing for every breath as she lay in intensive care, waiting for a set of new lungs.

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