NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance

[ems-buff 81]

I was reading this while at Bellevue. Very interesting as well as creepy!!!! I would have mixed feelings about it... what is everyone else's thoughts on this?

NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance

June 5, 2008 - 3:14pm

By DAVID B. CARUSO

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.

Link to Organ- Removal ambulance

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Already posted!

http://www.emtbravo.net/index.php?showtopic=25723