Are hospitals available in all hospitals if no, why?
2007-05-09 04:00:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Very specialized surgery requiring very specialized transplant team that needs a volume of work to be finanacially effective.
Limited to hospitals with the resources to support such surgery
2007-05-09 04:08:29 · answer #1 · answered by wizjp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. The reason is it is very expensive to do a heart transplant. The heart has to be transferred to the recipient via helicopter and the team who do heart transplants are specialist and cost a fortune. It takes specialized equipment, and specialized surgical teams who can all be ready on a phone call. It cost a fortune to have a helicopter pad on your hospital if there is not an airport nearby
Many hospitals cannot afford that kind of financial burden.
2007-05-09 04:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, each hospital has it's own "specialties" and not all are equiped to do things like a herat transplant. Most likely bigger hospitals (ex: University hospitals) would be where things such as transplants are done, local hospitals don't normally have such major specialties. The reason is cost, it's very expensive to do a transplant and not all facilities are finacially able to do so.
2007-05-09 09:11:43 · answer #3 · answered by etk79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, Cardiac surgery is a specialized field that requires specific, expensive equipment (Heart/Lung Machine, etc.). In order to perform surgeries, the best way would be to dedicate a suite of rooms specifically for such operations. A time clock, laser guns and many other items I don't immediately recall.
Although there are two - three hospitals in decent sized cities, the need to and the ability to obtain such equipment and staff is too costly to pursue if there is already another hospital that is set-up for it. What it all boils down to is "supply and demand."
2007-05-09 04:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by tatertown_94 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As others have pointed out, there are relatively few hospitals that perform transplants. This seems to be a fairly comprehensive list:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ApprovedTransplantCenters/downloads/heart_list.pdf
2007-05-09 10:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by Mark M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not all hospitals have cardiac specialists. There's no heart specialists in my city, have to travel to another city if you want that kind of care or surgery. Sucks, but that's what happens when you have a lack of qualified doctors in the area. My mom had heart surgury, ambulance had to drive her 1.5 hrs away to get surgery. They drove so fast that it broke the ambulance when it arrived. She could have easily died on the way there.
2007-05-09 04:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by hello 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Not all hospitals have the staff, equipment, and surgeons to have a transplant program.
2007-05-09 05:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by Dixie Dingo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 21:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This requires a lot of speciality care.
2007-05-09 04:08:43 · answer #9 · answered by Dee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure choose good one,, its important,,
2007-05-12 17:28:05 · answer #10 · answered by Irosh Bandara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋