What do hospitals do with amputated body parts?

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asked Jan 13, 2022 in Other- Health by riverdell (1,040 points)
What do hospitals do with amputated body parts?

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answered Jan 19, 2022 by Chambliss (46,100 points)
When a hospital amputates body parts the hospital will send the amputated body parts off to a Biohazard Crematoria to be destroyed or if the patient approves they may also be donated to a medical college and then eventually destroyed.

However in most cases the amputated body parts are cremated and destroyed.

On rare occasions when it is requested by the patient for religious or personal reasons, the limb will be provided to them.

In some cases amputation may shorten life expectancy some but not everyone who has an amputation has a shorter life.

Amputation can sometimes shorten some peoples life expectancy depending on the persons age and current health and why they had to have a limb amputated.

For patients who had to have a leg or two legs amputated due to diabetes they may only live another 2 years to 10 years at most.

But if the person is older as in 70 years old or older then their life expectancy can be lower than some younger person such as 30 to 50 years old who had amputation done for diabetes.

If you're young and just had amputation done because your legs or other limb could not be saved due to trauma then you might live a normal long life but sometimes complications can happen but it's rare.

Still if you need to have amputation done you can live longer usually than if you had not had the amputation done.

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