The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxA ground-breaking new procedure has saved six children’s lives through reanimated heart surgery.The scientific breakthrough, known as donation after circulatory death (DCD), allows hearts to be brought back to life and kept beating outside of a human body until they’re needed for transplants.And the work of staff from Great Ormond Street Hospital and Royal Papworth Hospital has so far given new life to six children.The donated organs come from patients who are considered brain-dead but still have beating hearts.Procedures of this kind were first done on adults back in 2015 but only recently have doctors been able to perform DCD.
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