[HSF] Death on waiting list

[Jacob Lavee, MD]

In Israel the waiting time is about the time it takes our Blood Bank to 
prepare 2 units of cross-matched packed cells...

Jay Lavee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salerno, Tomas" <TSalerno at med.miami.edu>
To: <OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com>; <OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 7:35 AM
Subject: RE: [HSF] Death on waiting list


> waiting lists in the USA are in general about one hour
>
> TS
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> From: openheart-l-bounces at lists.hsforum.com on behalf of Tea Acuff
> Sent: Mon 4/16/2007 12:32 AM
> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Subject: Re: [HSF] Death on waiting list
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> About the only waiting going on in the United States of America (no ugly 
> "American" short hand) is over the weekend. Excepting the Veterans 
> Administration Hospitals of course.
> tea edward acuff junior medical doctor
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> From: Tina i Mladen Kocica <kocica at sezampro.yu>
> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:59:59 PM
> Subject: [HSF] Death on waiting list
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> Our heart surgery waiting lists (WL), here in Serbia, are permanently
> growing, with today average of about 1000 people per centre annualy. It
> seems that we do not make them properly, since death rate on WL is also
> permanetly increasing (from 8% three years ago to 15% last year).
> Questions:
> 1) General opinion about WL for heart surgery (ethics)?
> 2) Criteria? Who makes them?
> 3) Your annual WL load?
> 4) Your WL mortality?
>
> Regards,
> Mladen
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> Mladen J. Kocica, M.D.
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> Clinic for Cardiac Surgery
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> Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
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> UC Clinical Centre of Serbia
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> 8th Kosta Todorovic St.
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> 11000 Belgrade
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> Serbia
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> Tel: + 381 (11) 3670609
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> Fax: + 381 (11) 3610880
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> E-mail:  <mailto:kocica at sezampro.yu> kocica at sezampro.yu
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> URL:  <http://www.kocica.org/> www.kocica.org
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> URL:  <http://www.ctsnet.org/home/mkocica> www.ctsnet.org/home/mkocica
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> URL:  <http://www.srscvs.org/> www.srscvs.org
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