Transplant-a-thon '07

From The National Post:

Six doctors took part in a record-breaking 56-hour marathon at the University of Alberta Hospital last month, when they gave 18 new organs to 15 patients.

There were four new hearts, four sets of lungs, six kidneys, three livers and one pancreas -- all from four organ donors whose deaths gave life to others.

Normally, it would take three to four weeks to transplant that many organs. And normally, the hospital only does just one combination heart-double lung transplant in a single year.

Now that's a lot of surgery all at the same time. No word, but they probably took the rest of the month off after this feat.

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