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When Joshua Mezrich was a medical student on the first day of surgical rotation, he was called into the operating room to witness a kidney transplant.

What he saw that day changed him.

After the donor kidney came out of ice and the clamps on it were released, he says, “it turned pink and literally, in front of my eyes, this urine just started squirting out onto the field.”

Mezrich was blown away: “I just had this sense like, ‘This is so amazing, what we’re doing, and what an incredible gift. And could I ever do this? Could I ever be part of this exchange, this beautiful thing?’ “

He went on to become a transplant surgeon and has since performed hundreds of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants. He also has assisted in operations involving other organs.

Each organ responds to transplant in a different way.

“The liver will start pouring bile. The lungs start essentially breathing,” Mezrich says. “Maybe the most dramatic organ, of course, is the heart, because you put it in and you kind of hit it like you hit a computer, maybe you give a little shock and it just starts beating, and that’s pretty darn dramatic.”

Mezrich is an associate professor in the division of multiorgan transplantation at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. He reflects on his experiences as a transplant surgeon and shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.

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On the different types of organ donors

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Article source: https://www.wprl.org/post/surgeon-reflects-death-life-and-incredible-gift-organ-transplant

The pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was likely behind the plane’s disappearance on March 8, 2014, according to a member of an investigative group. Victor Iannello used civilian radar data made public in April 2018 for his comprehensive report.

According to the MH370 independent group, the plane’s flight path near the Malaysian state of Penang was consistent with a navigation system that is fully operational, Sputnik News reported.

“In order to better understand the sequence of inputs to the flight control system, we created a simulation using the PMDG 777 model in Microsoft Flight Simulator. In particular, we studied whether the aircraft might have been flown with the pilot providing inputs to the autopilot, and what those inputs might have been,” Iannello said, adding that it was possible the pilot tried to evade radar detection. 

“MH370’s flight path near Penang can be replicated with the autopilot engaged and the flight path near Penang is consistent with the image of the military radar data in the Malacca Strait that was never officially released. It is very unlikely that there was an intention to land at Penang Airport,” Iannello alleged.

The study’s findings somewhat coincide with a widely popular “death-dive” theory. Larry Vance, an aviation expert and former investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said in May 2018 that he believed Flight MH370 was intentionally flown into the ocean in an act of murder-suicide.

Flight MH370 was carrying 239 people on board when it went missing while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite several search efforts, the plane’s main body was not found. The mystery behind what happened to the jet continues as investigators were unable to determine what caused the crash.

In July 2018,

Article source: http://infosurhoy.com/cocoon/saii/xhtml/en_GB/news/mh370-conspiracy-idea-pilot-deliberate-airplanes-disappearance/

By Tim Hepher

MONTREAL (Reuters) – Europe’s Airbus AIR.PA is ratcheting up pressure on suppliers like United Technologies UTX.N to cut costs for its Canadian-developed A220 jetliner as it expands factory facilities to cope with anticipated demand for the former Bombardier model.

Long seen as low on the list of priorities for top suppliers as Canada struggled to break into the main airliner market, the A220 now has the clout of the world’s second largest planemaker behind it after Airbus bought the loss-making project last year.

Philippe Balducchi, head of an Airbus-led venture which took over production last July, said the planemaker was looking for a “significant double-digit” percentage reduction in costs but played down suggestions that it could slash costs by half.

Speaking at the Mirabel airplane plant outside Montreal which Bombardier now shares with Airbus, Balducchi indicated the bulk of the reduction in costs would come from the supply chain as Airbus uses its greater clout in negotiations for parts.

Other savings would come from more efficient operations as workers gain experience of building the lightweight 110-130-seat jet, whose deliveries doubled to 33 aircraft last year.

However, overall economies will go “way beyond” what Airbus can achieve internally on the assembly line, Balducchi said.

“Our focus is to sell, ramp up (production) and reduce costs on the A220,” Rob Dewar, head of engineering and customer support, added during a media briefing on the jet, which was known as the CSeries until Airbus took control in July 2018.

Cutting costs is key to lifting the programme

Article source: https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/14/airbus-steps-up-pressure-on-suppliers-over-canadian-jet