Reports
Organ Recital
How Can We Improve Procurement Air Travel Safety?
Renz, John F. Liver Transplantation, December 2010. Published online Sept. 21, 2010. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lt.22191/abstract.
Physician, Heal Thyself; But Don’t Fly Thyself
Merion, Robert M. Liver Transplantation, December 2010. Published online Nov. 16, 2010. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lt.22219/abstract.
On Nov. 20, 2010, rescuers salvaged a donated liver from the wreckage of a Cessna Citation 501 that crashed on landing at Birmingham (England) Airport. Both pilots were injured but survived, and the undamaged liver was rushed to a hospital where it was implanted in a patient. The patient “would certainly have died” without the liver, the surgeon …