Woman died after being given smoker's lungs - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/woman-died-after-being-given-smokers-lungs-2000852.html"]They must have been on discount[/URL] [QUOTE]Chris Rudge, national clinical director for transplantation, said smoking was not the "issue" in the case of cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott, whose family have lodged a complaint after she received a double lung transplant from a 30-year smoker. [/QUOTE] 30-year smoker

Wow, smoking [i]does[/i] harm more people than the smoker.

Now that's what I call second hand smoking.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to even consider using organs from a smoker deserves to lose their job.

"The 28-year-old, from Wigan," hey this is in my town nothing ever happens in my town

If you need a lung transplant your chances for survival probably aren't that high to begin with. Still though, the fact I smoke is why I'm not an organ donor.

[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;22648186]Whoever thought it was a good idea to even consider using organs from a smoker deserves to lose their job.[/QUOTE] Yes, this. I hope they get sued for being stupid with their jobs.

:doh:

Ew, not only did you get lungs from a fucking corpse, they are already ravaged by smoke. That's just nasty.

[QUOTE=Thomo;22648008]Nhs[/QUOTE] What?

[QUOTE=Penguiin;22650117]Ew, not only did you get lungs from a fucking corpse, they are already ravaged by smoke. That's just nasty.[/QUOTE] How else are you gonna get someones lungs?

[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;22650242]How else are you gonna get someones lungs?[/QUOTE] I know, but it doesn't change the fact that it's fucking creepy.

[QUOTE=Penguiin;22650666]I know, but it doesn't change the fact that it's fucking creepy.[/QUOTE] What if the guy was a donor?

now what kind of hospital gets lungs from a 30-year smoker?

[QUOTE=Thomo;22648008]Nhs[/QUOTE] lol, and you think the US healthcare service is different?

[IMG]http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9198/superirony.gif[/IMG] I guess, she was smoked.

Goddamn smokers, keep your filthy internal organs to yourselves!

I'd rather have some roughed up lungs than no lungs at all [editline]12:40AM[/editline] though 30 years is a bit much

cystic fibrosis is really killer, and the odds of surviving a lung transplant for more than a few years is small.

If the 30 year smoker died of lung related problems, okay this transplant was a bad idea. But if the 30 year smoker was hit by a bus then that means those lungs still worked! Sometimes when your car needs a part the smart thing is to go to the junk yard and get it cheap off a car that had another sort of problem. For instance, if you need a new hood, why buy a brand new one when you can get a perfectly good one for cheap off a car that was rear ended?

Didn't think a smoker's lungs would be considered for transplant.

Those super nice companies were right! Smoking doesn't kill people, lungs that smoked and go to others do.

There better be a malpractice suit coming.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;22651953]If the 30 year smoker died of lung related problems, okay this transplant was a bad idea. But if the 30 year smoker was hit by a bus then that means those lungs still worked! Sometimes when your car needs a part the smart thing is to go to the junk yard and get it cheap off a car that had another sort of problem. For instance, if you need a new hood, why buy a brand new one when you can get a perfectly good one for cheap off a car that was rear ended?[/QUOTE] smokers aren't even supposed to be allowed to be doners

[QUOTE=BizzD;22652256]Those super nice companies were right! Smoking doesn't kill people, lungs that smoked and go to others do.[/QUOTE] ban smoking lungs

[QUOTE=GoldenGnome;22648054]Now that's what I call second hand smoking.[/QUOTE]

I don't see why the patient should be informed if the person that used to have the lungs smoked. Like it says in the article, the doctors make sure they are up to standards, they know what they are doing. And with any procedure there is a chance of death, and it of course says that the cause of death was not the fact the lungs were from a smoker.

These people are on an organ donation list. Most of these people unfortunately out live the chance of ever recieving a transplant. I can only imagine the doctors who are left with the dialema on wether to let the woman die without one or use what is available.