Eye bank

Organ transplantation

National Organ Transplant Act of 1984

Organ donation

Sigrid Fry-Revere

Paul Terasaki

Organ procurement

Ronald D. Guttmann

Organ Donation Taskforce

Organ trade

Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Donors103

• Children as donors: a national study to assess procurement of organs and tissues in pediatric intensive care units. (nih.gov)
• Empirical data on procurement from pediatric donors is sparse. (nih.gov)
• Although an overall identification rate of 84% of potential organ donors may seem acceptable, the variation observed suggests room for improvement, as does the overall low rate of identification of pediatric tissue donors. (nih.gov)
• Efforts to address the shortage of organs and tissues for transplantation in children should focus on identifying potential donors and on the reasons why parents do not consent. (nih.gov)
• In New York, a state legislator introduced a bill in April that would assume all state residents were organ donors unless they specifically opted out. (drugs.com)
• LifeSharers -- the group Undis founded -- has run an organ donor registry since 2002 in which members agree to give first preference for their organs to others who have signed up with the registry to be organ donors themselves. (drugs.com)
• If you give them first to registered organ donors, more people will register, and fewer people will die waiting for transplants," he said. (drugs.com)
• [ 2 ] Aggressive usage of extended donors and reduced-size, split, and living-related liver transplantation continues to expand the organ donor pool, though these efforts still fail to meet the need for organs. (medscape.com)
• Organ donors may be living, brain dead , or dead via circulatory death. (wikipedia.org)
• Tissue may be recovered from donors who die of circulatory death, as well as of brain death - up to 24 hours past the cessation of heartbeat. (wikipedia.org)
• Our program supports kidney and liver transplant patients who receive organs from both live and deceased donors. (pressherald.com)
• The dearth of donors of color affects all transplants, from blood-related procedures, to tissues such as corneas, to organs such as skin and kidneys. (washingtoninformer.com)
• The OPTN keeps track of all of the donors registered nationally, and helps states coordinate matching, donation, organ transport, and transplant. (washingtoninformer.com)
• Yearly number of organ transplants, patients on waiting list, living and deceased Donors. (medscape.com)
• While much attention has been focused on identifying other sources of organs for transplant, such as stem cell-derived organs and xenografts, the mainstay of organ supply comes from deceased donor donation (DDD) (ie, cadaveric donors). (medscape.com)
• Evaluation of trauma patients as potential organ donors is critical to maximize the organ usage for transplantation. (medscape.com)
• The circumstances and mechanism of death in organ donors from 1998 to 2020 are shown in Figure 2. (medscape.com)
• Circumstances of clinical grain death in organ donors for 1998-2020. (medscape.com)
• By contrast, the contribution of living donors on the overall donor pool with respect to organ/multiorgan transplantation performed in the United States between 1998 and 2020 is represented in Figure 3. (medscape.com)
• Everyone's making money in the market for body tissue--except the donors. (thefreelibrary.com)
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is undertaking this initiative to ease the critical shortage of organ and tissue donors by building a national community of organ sharing. (nm.org)
• Prior to the study, we had noticed a decline in the number of deceased organ donors in Southern Alberta," said Dr. Andreas Kramer, lead author of the study. (cnn.com)
• Just across the border, Michigan saw a 4% decrease in brain death donors in 2012, according to Richard Pietroski, CEO of Gift of Life Michigan and Chair of the UNOS Organ Procurement Organization Committee. (cnn.com)
• As more people prevent and survive brain injuries, the demographic of organ donors is shifting. (cnn.com)
• DCD donors are often older than and not as healthy as younger donors, so they cannot offer as many viable and eligible organs for transplant, Pearson said. (cnn.com)
• Despite promising organ-donation technologies, deceased organ donors are still in short supply in the United States. (cnn.com)
• NOTA made it illegal to compensate organ donors, but did not prevent payment for other forms of donations (such as human plasma, sperm, and egg cells). (wikipedia.org)
• Although bone marrow is not an organ or a component of an organ, the act made paying bone marrow donors illegal. (wikipedia.org)
• healthcare providers were required to request consent from families of eligible organ donors. (thefreedictionary.com)
• Moreover, to address the unmet need for heart and lung transplants, we will develop treatment algorithms for the utilization of marginal donors and organs from non-heart beating donors for heart and lung transplantation. (helsinki.fi)
• Due to the organ shortage, marginal donors are increasingly used. (helsinki.fi)
• WHO HQ Library catalog › Results of search for 'su:{Tissue donors. (who.int)
• 2 Paired exchanges for kidneys linking willing donors with suitable matches have helped reduce the shortage a bit. (cmaj.ca)
• Celebrated in April each year, NDLM features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to celebrate those that have saved lives through the gift of donation. (greatermkemen.com)
• Across our country, we face a shortage of donors and an urgent need for help. (greatermkemen.com)
• I call upon health care professionals, volunteers, educators, government agencies, faith-based and community groups, and private organizations to join forces to boost the number of organ, tissue, blood, and stem cell donors throughout our Nation. (greatermkemen.com)
• While countries struggle to find ways of motivating more people to become organ donors, the international illegal black market is thriving. (scielo.org.za)
• To achieve this, it is proposed that donors should be rewarded more effectively, or a regulated market in human organs should be allowed. (scielo.org.za)
• Thus, the current shortage of lung donors may be significantly reduced by implementing different therapeutic strategies which facilitate both organ preservation and recovery. (hindawi.com)
• Organ donors can be living , or deceased (previously referred to as cadaveric). (wikidoc.org)
• Since most living organ donors are adults, CHOP's partnership with HUP ensures the best care for both donor and recipient. (chop.edu)
• Stricter criteria are needed to control psychologic and financial burdens of failed transfers of deceased donors to the organ procurement unit. (ectrx.org)
• In a Middle Eastern country with a growing population like Iran, it is disappointing to witness unsuccessful retrieval of organs from deceased donors. (ectrx.org)
• In our center, if the family consents, all deceased potential donors are transferred from their original hospital to the organ procurement unit (OPU) hospital. (ectrx.org)
• Therefore, efforts are focussed on the conversion of possible donors to actual ones.4 Here, we discuss successful and unsuccessful organ donations and their processes after transfer to our OPU. (ectrx.org)
• Offering monetary compensation for organs will likely increase the number of organ donors in the United States and thus narrow the gap between the number of organs needed and the number of organs available. (highbeam.com)
• 236) Iran has successfully eliminated its waiting list for kidney recipients since legalizing the sale of organs from living donors. (highbeam.com)
• 237) However, the proposal of providing compensation for organs in the United States is often met with concerns, including the ethics of the commodification of the human body and the risk of harm to donors and recipients. (highbeam.com)
• 248) A market involving the sale of non-vital organs from living donors raises more ethical issues than the sale of cadaver organs due to the potential for such donation to be coerced, particularly in light of the fact that a living donor could potentially suffer harm due to complications from the donation surgery. (highbeam.com)
• Our proposal focuses on a market for cadaver organs, as a discussion of compensation for living donors is beyond the scope of this paper and instead will be explored in future works. (highbeam.com)
• It states that lawmakers should permit the solicitations of directed donations from living organ donors because it increases total donations without sacrificing equity and medical utility. (ebscohost.com)
• On the other hand, the solicitations of directed donations from deceased donors should be restricted because it could compromise the principles of an established organ allocation system. (ebscohost.com)
• Public Solicitation of Organ Donors. (ebscohost.com)
• Allografts used to be freely available from both private and state funeral parlours and from solid organ donors. (scielo.org.za)
• Perhaps your readers are not aware that California has a new law, effective Jan. 1, 1986, that requires hospitals to develop a protocol for identifying potential organ and tissue donors. (chicagotribune.com)
• all 18 hospitals provide deceased donors for solid organ transplantation. (lww.com)
• Many of those issues are overcome by organ registries, in which individuals choose to become organ donors. (britannica.com)
• Through such registries, donors can indicate which organs they are willing to donate upon death. (britannica.com)
• Furthermore, there is a danger of commercial interests becoming involved with people willing to sell their organs for personal gain, and there is definite risk of illegal organ trafficking, in which organs are procured from unwilling donors and then sold to facilities that offer transplant services. (britannica.com)
• This is the "back-table" work, and it may take as long as an extra hour to clean up the donor liver (Fig. The trend is to use higher risk donors because of the severe shortage of donor livers. (baldforbieber.com)
• People can become organ donors by contacting the Department of Motor Vehicles and having a symbolic red heart put on their licenses, or by signing up at save7lives.org. (dailypress.com)
• Paying people to donate kidneys is often proposed or justified as a way to benefit recipients by increasing the supply of organs and to benefit donors by improving their economic status. (nih.gov)
• In the general population, only three in 1,000 people die in a way that would enable their organs to be donated-if they were registered donors. (harvard.edu)
• The supply of organs-particularly kidneys-donated by living and deceased donors falls short of the number of patients added annually to transplant waiting lists in the United States. (nih.gov)
• Organ donation should remain an act that is financially neutral for donors, neither imposing financial burdens nor enriching them monetarily. (nih.gov)
• Though about 45 percent of American adults are registered organ donors, it varies widely by state. (theatlantic.com)
• The mistrust can come from personal experience-one study in New York showed , for example, that next of kin who perceived a lower quality of care during a loved one's final days were less likely to consent to donation-or from misconceptions about how the medical community treats registered organ donors. (theatlantic.com)
• Organs can be donated by people at the time of death (deceased donors) or by living donors. (kidney.org)
• The federal government contracts with an independent organization, called the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) , to manage the distribution of organs donated by individuals at the time of death (deceased donors). (kidney.org)
• Potential organ donors are declared dead and then maintained on ventilators to keep all vital organs healthy until the donation can take place. (kidney.org)
• Under this system, the hospital must notify the local Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) about all potential donors. (kidney.org)
• The conversion rate (donors with consent from whom any organs were retrieved) was 92% (57/62) in the routine requesting group and 79% (45/57) in the collaborative requesting group (P=0.043). (bmj.com)
• A recent audit of all deaths in 341 intensive care units in the UK over a 24 month period showed that 41% of the relatives of potential organ donors denied consent for donation. (bmj.com)
• Marginal grafts or extended criteria donor (ECD) organs from brain dead donors represent the largest potential for donor pool expansion today. (cbw.com)
• Although liver transplantation in the United States is driven by the supply of whole organs from donation after brain death (DBD), approximately 12% of all liver transplant recipients in 2008 received partial grafts from living donors, split grafts from DBD, or whole organs from donation after cardiac death (DCD) (Figure 2). (cbw.com)
• A bill signed Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which makes permanent a law requiring New Yorkers to check a box indicating whether or not they want to be organ donors for their license applications to be processed, could help address the crisis. (pressconnects.com)
• Until February, New York was one of only two states in the nation that didn't allow 16- and 17-year-olds to register as organ donors. (pressconnects.com)
• April is National Donate Life Month, a time when communities across the country bring attention to the critical shortage of organs and tissue for patients through various activities and events, and encourage individuals to become organ/tissue donors. (lifegoeson.com)
• National Minority Donor Awareness Week is celebrated the first week in August to educate people about the need for minority donors and the facts surrounding organ, blood and tissue donation. (lifegoeson.com)
• Life Goes On," a statewide public awareness campaign, begins in April with a two-day conference to address concerns about the shortage of donors. (lifegoeson.com)
• Could the same end-of-life care given to organ transplant donors benefit cryonics patients? (alcor.org)
• Fifty consecutive Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) deaths were reviewed to compare the number of transplant-eligible donors to the amount of tissue received. (elsevier.com)
• The Member States are facing a serious shortage of organ donors on the one hand and an increase in the demand for organs on the other. (europa.eu)
• The difference in the molecular and cellular responses to prednisolone administration may explain the contradictory evidence of the effects of prednisolone on different organ types from brain dead organ donors. (biomedcentral.com)
• Increasingly, organs from brain dead extended criteria donors (ECD) and donors after circulatory arrest (DCD) are being used to address the organ deficit. (biomedcentral.com)
• The numbers of people in need of organ, tissue and cornea transplants are staggering, especially when compared to the shortage of registered donors," said Susan Stuart, president and CEO of CORE. (core.org)
• These are lack of organ donors, poor infrastructure in which our transplant patients are housed and a shortage of Transplant Surgeons. (sinnfein.ie)
• This motion focuses on what is called 'presumed consent', a system where all persons are deemed to have opted in for organ donation and they opt out if they do not wish to be donors. (sinnfein.ie)
• If donors were told at the time about profits, they wouldn't donate," said the director of the Intermountain Tissue Center in Salt Lake City. (commondreams.org)
• Teams from the OPOs monitor surgeries to remove organs from donors and then make sure the organs are properly boxed and labeled for shipping and delivery. (healthleadersmedia.com)
• 3 This is why innovative ways to not only widen the available pool of organ donors, but also keep people waiting for transplants alive longer, are so important. (froedtert.com)
• Many livers from deceased donors are not suitable for transplant with the current organ preservation process," said Johnny C. Hong, MD, director of the Solid Organ Transplant Program, a joint program of Froedtert & MCW Froedtert Hospital and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. (froedtert.com)
• Yet right now, Singapore is preparing to pay donors as much as 50,000 Singapore dollars (almost US$36,000) for their organs. (independent.org)
• Organs can be taken from deceased donors only after they have been declared dead, but where is the line between life and death? (independent.org)
• Kidneys donated from people over the age of 60 or from people who had various medical problems are more likely to fail than organs from younger, healthier donors, but they are now being used under the pressure. (independent.org)
• Head surgeon Dr. Michael Phelan explained, the ongoing shortage of organs from deceased donors, and the high risk of dying while waiting for a transplant, prompted five donors and recipients to push ahead with surgery. (independent.org)
• The growing numbers of patients requiring organ transplantation will require an increase in the number of donors able to supply these organs. (ispub.com)
• Currently, the reliance on organ donors without disease is problematic to fulfilling the number of organs, necessary to meet the demand. (ispub.com)
• Under these circumstances of acute shortage, it might be possible to increase the pool of donor organs, by considering the use of organs from donors, diagnosed with communicable diseases, such as Hepatitis C. (ispub.com)
• Cardiac transplantation has become limited by a critical shortage of suitable organs from brain-dead donors. (frontiersin.org)
• Nonetheless, there is a shortage of donors, and many patients die while still on the waiting list. (empowher.com)
• It appears possible to design suitably regulated market-type approaches to the acquisition and allocation of cadaveric organs (and perhaps of organs from living donors as well) that will be neither unduly offensive to ethical sensibilities nor easily abused. (organselling.com)
• In order to expand the number of live-saving organs from cadaveric donors, motives to give consent for organ recovery must change. (organselling.com)

Transplantation Network12

• UNOS, which manages the nation's Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, established by Congress in 1984, takes issue with the LifeSharers' philosophy. (drugs.com)
• As of January 2011, more than 16,000 Americans are on the waiting list to receive a suitable liver according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. (healthcanal.com)
• and established the formation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. (wikipedia.org)
• Today, over 100,000 Americans await donation on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network waiting list. (greatermkemen.com)
• The act established the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to maintain a national registry for organ matching. (wordpress.com)
• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network tracks the statistics. (harvard.edu)
• The annual number of recovered deceased donor livers has decreased nationwide from 7017 in 2006 to 6608 in 2010, according to data collected by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). (cbw.com)
• Every year, about 500 New York residents on the organ recipient waiting list die because of a statewide organ shortage, according to data maintained by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a database of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (pressconnects.com)
• "The List" is the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network list of people needing donor organs. (crozerkeystone.org)
• Every person waiting for a donor organ is registered with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which maintains a centralized computer network linking all regional organ gathering organizations (known as organ procurement organizations, or OPOs) and transplant centers. (crozerkeystone.org)
• Additionally, kidneys received through living donation have a 15 percent higher ten-year organ survival rate than kidneys received from a deceased donor, according to the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). (froedtert.com)
• According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a person can wait as long as 2,446 days for a liver and 503 days for a heart. (empowher.com)

Kidneys13

• The Global and regional markets (except the US) for Organ and Tissue Transplantation in this report are analyzed by the following Product Segments - Organ Tranplantation (Heart, Kidneys, Liver, Pancreas, Lungs, and Corneal Transplantation). (marketpublishers.com)
• Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs, followed by the liver and then the heart. (wikipedia.org)
• Of these organs, kidneys had the highest and intestines had the least number of discards. (medscape.com)
• A continued shortage of deceased donor kidneys has also led to an increased reliance on living donor transplantation. (chop.edu)
• A. This is medically possible with organs like the kidneys, liver and lungs, though tissue and blood-type matching must still be done. (familydoctormag.com)
• But the number of people waiting for kidneys, and all other organs, increases every year, she said, with the average person waiting five to seven years for a transplant. (dailypress.com)
• UMC excised four solid organs (2 kidneys, 1 liver & 1 heart) from a cadaveric donor and furnished them to Donor Network of Arizona, the regional OPO. (thefreedictionary.com)
• Many countries have a shortage of kidneys available for transplantation. (nih.gov)
• Kidneys, livers, pancreases and intestinal organs are first offered within one of 11 regions of the United States. (memorialmedical.com)
• Kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organ, and the number of people on the wait list for a donor kidney far surpasses that of any other organ. (froedtert.com)
• According to the National Kidney Foundation, most people who donate kidneys do not have health problems later in life associated with donating an organ. (froedtert.com)
• By the time of autopsy, it is too late to harvest organs such as kidneys. (independent.org)
• Tragically, in third world countries such as India, wealthy 'organ tourists' go there to get kidneys where it is legal to do so. (metafilter.com)

Recipients13

• If we weigh the damage to the interests of the deceased, and her friends, and relatives if their wishes are overridden against the damage done to would be recipients and their friends and relatives if they fail to get the organs they need to keep them alive, where should the balance of our moral concern lie? (bmj.com)
• To maintain listings of potential organ recipients, the Department of Health and Human Services contracts the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) . (medscape.com)
• UNOS maintains the lists of potential recipients divided by organ and ABO blood type. (medscape.com)
• Sometimes, a deceased-donor organ (specifically the liver) may be divided between two recipients, especially an adult and a child. (wikidoc.org)
• Sometimes, a deceased-donor organ (specifically the liver) may be divided between two recipients, especially an adult and a child.But it is not usually preferred, because the transplantations of whole organs are more useful. (statemaster.com)
• UNOS is a community that manages data for every US transplant, facilitates every organ matching/placement process using UNOS-developed data technology, and brings together medical professional, recipients, and donor families to develop policy. (wordpress.com)
• Advances in immunosuppressive therapy have put increasing pressure on the supply of donor organs, and medical personnel sometimes find themselves having to determine who among the potential recipients should receive a lifesaving graft. (britannica.com)
• Choosing organ recipients amidst such shortages has been called "a grim calculus. (blogspot.com)
• Because recipients who live closest to the donated organs get a leg up on the national wait list, New Yorkers are at a massive disadvantage. (pressconnects.com)
• A risk-benefit analysis must be carried out so that the organs can be allocated to suitable recipients. (europa.eu)
• Baseline hemodynamics profiles in organ recipients should be collected and immunosuppressants should be provided. (wolterskluwer.com)
• MP of thoracic organs also offers an exciting platform to further investigate downregulation of the innate and adaptive immunity prior to reperfusion of the allograft in recipients. (readbyqxmd.com)
• Many recipients are so overjoyed about a second chance at life, that they compete in the annual winter and summer World Transplant Games, a series of Olympic-style events for athletic people who have received a major organ. (empowher.com)

OPOs4

• Local organ procurement organizations (OPOs) are authorized by the Health Care Financing Administration and UNOS to manage the procurement of organs in their region. (medscape.com)
• Many organ procurement organizations (OPOs) are examining the potential of non-heart-beating donation programs to address the organ shortage problem. (nap.edu)
• The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) is one of 58 federally designated not-for-profit organ procurement organizations (OPOs) in the United States. (core.org)
• Instead, the U.S. relies on a patchwork of 58 nonprofit organizations called organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, to collect the organs from hospitals and package them. (healthleadersmedia.com)

United Network11

• When it comes to determining who gets available organs, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in Richmond, Va., maintains a list of patients waiting for donated organs and oversees organ matching and placement. (drugs.com)
• To become a living organ or tissue donor one must register with the federal United Network for Organ Sharing, and undergo a full physical and psych evaluation. (washingtoninformer.com)
• The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) defines brain death as irreversible cessation of all neurological function. (cnn.com)
• If so, you will be registered with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to find a donor liver. (nm.org)
• The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) maintains a centralized computer network linking all organ procurement centers (OPO) transplant centers. (memorialmedical.com)
• The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a private nonprofit organization, administers OPTN under a contract with the Federal Government. (crozerkeystone.org)
• Operating under the UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) umbrella, the New York Organ Donor Network determines organ allocation and matches through several variables such as blood type, age, severity of condition, etc. (montefiore.org)
• The media organizations reviewed data from more than 8,800 organ and tissue shipments collected voluntarily and shared upon request by the United Network for Organ Sharing , or UNOS, the nonprofit government contractor that oversees the nation's transplant system. (healthleadersmedia.com)
• Instead, the blame goes to transplant doctors, the United Network for Organ Sharing and Congressional leaders. (chicagotribune.com)
• To address these problems in the short term, medical centers and UNOS (the United Network for Organ Sharing) have developed gruesome things like the MELD calculator , which is an attempt to fairly allocate organs to the sickest persons. (metafilter.com)
• Kidney and liver are the two most sought after organs according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). (empowher.com)

Donor's11

• While specifics vary depending on the organ, the patient's medical condition, how closely blood, tissue and the donor's size match the donor, time on the waiting list and proximity to the donor are considered, according to Donate Life America. (drugs.com)
• When an organ/tissue donor dies, consent for donation is obtained either from a donor registry or from the donor's next of kin. (wikipedia.org)
• Even if it is, few physicians or nurses will retrieve organs for transplant without the consent of the donor's next of kin--despite the fact that the UAGA explicitly protects those who rely on a donor card from legal liability. (thefreedictionary.com)
• If an organ has been outside the donor's body for too long it might not work as well. (chop.edu)
• In the event that the market for organs involves a contract with a third party administrator, such a contract could consist of a verified document indicating the donor's desire to donate cadaver organs and specifying who should receive remuneration. (highbeam.com)
• Cadaver organs could also be sold through a futures contract, where a donor would receive payment during their lifetime in exchange for the right to the donor's cadaver organs upon their death. (highbeam.com)
• A. Before the organs are removed, the donor's medical history is studied-things like smoking, kidney failure, diabetes and active infections. (familydoctormag.com)
• Interventions Collaborative requesting for consent for organ donation by the potential donor's clinician and a donor transplant coordinator (organ procurement officer) compared with routine requesting by the clinical team alone. (bmj.com)
• The distance between the donor and transplant hospital is important because the less time the organ must be preserved outside the donor's body, the better the chance it will function when transplanted. (memorialmedical.com)
• Most families respect the donor's decision, but Trevino says he often hears comments such as, "My mom never mentioned anything about it" or "We never talked about organ donation. (montefiore.org)
• Observers of OPTN operations have raised the concern that people in certain regions of the country have to wait longer than others because allocation policies for some organs give preference to patients within the donor's region. (kidneyurology.org)

Organizations6

• In addition, the National Organ Donation Collaborative efforts, currently ongoing, and laws that require all deaths to be reported to organ procurement organizations have resulted in increased organ donations. (medscape.com)
• The hearts are deemed unusable because organ procurement organizations and transplant teams have only 2 to 4 hours to find a recipient before the heart tissue begins to deteriorate. (hibernicor.com)
• The lack of organs in New York state is being treated as a public health crisis," said Mike Thibault, executive director of the Center for Donation and Transplant in Albany, one of the state's four organ procurement organizations. (pressconnects.com)
• Nearly 9,500 people now are on wait lists for organ procurement organizations in the state, according to data from UNOS. (pressconnects.com)
• One winning poster is duplicated and distributed statewide to Driver Services facilities, libraries, schools, hospitals, procurement agencies and other organizations. (lifegoeson.com)
• Donate Life America is a not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions across the United States dedicated to inspiring all people to save and enhance lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. (liverfoundation.org)

Organization13

• The organization promotes organ donation and provides education about it. (nm.org)
• Website of the not-for-profit organ procurement organization that works with hospitals and donor families in the northern three-fourths of Illinois and northwest Indiana. (nm.org)
• The organization is responsible for the recovery of organs and tissue for medical transplantation in the service area, as well as for professional and public education on organ and tissue donation. (nm.org)
• Legislative responses to organ transplantation / edited by World Health Organization. (who.int)
• LifeNet Health Transplant Services Division is a leading, federally designated Organ Procurement Organization that coordinates the recovery and transplant of organs in Virginia and part of West Virginia, offers a comprehensive program of bereavement support for donor families, and educates the public about donation. (lifenethealth.org)
• Regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require hospitals to report pending deaths and deaths to their local organ procurement organization. (uptodate.com)
• Now, only persons approved by the organ procurement organization are authorized to request organ donation from the next of kin/legal decision-maker. (uptodate.com)
• The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is an educational and scientific, tax exempt organization founded in 1976. (healthfinder.gov)
• It's a kind of "proxy donor" system, said Dena Reynolds, spokesperson for LifeNet Health, a nonprofit organ-procurement organization. (dailypress.com)
• Planned Parenthood, under fire for a heavily-edited video suggesting the organization violated federal law in facilitating the donation of fetal tissue, says it believes future videos may make racially-charged claims. (infowars.com)
• This is usually the area served by the local organ procurement organization where the donation occurs. (memorialmedical.com)
• The New York Donor Network is the local organ procurement organization that works closely with the Montefiore Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative. (montefiore.org)
• however, all costs associated with the process are the responsibility of the recovery organization, so relatives can be assured that they will not pay any money to fulfill their loved one's wishes to donate their organs. (montefiore.org)

Registered organ donor3

• I was already a registered organ donor. (washingtoninformer.com)
• Whether a person is a registered organ donor can then be indicated on a personal identification card (e.g., a driver's license), authorizing organ procurement once the individual is deceased. (britannica.com)
• To become a registered organ donor, please visit www.donatelifecalifornia.org and follow the instructions to complete the Registry sign-up. (liverfoundation.org)

Preservation16

• Uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death - that is, dying from a cardiac death that is not medically monitored - requires initiation of organ preservation quickly after death. (cmaj.ca)
• A few European programs initiate organ preservation and recovery without requiring explicit consent. (cmaj.ca)
• Here, we studied whether the anti-inflammatory effect of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (HUCPVCs) increases lung availability by improving organ preservation. (hindawi.com)
• We developed a lung preservation rat model that mimics the different stages by which donor organs must undergo before implantation. (hindawi.com)
• In conclusion, these results demonstrate that the anti-inflammatory effect of MSCs protects donor lungs against ischemic injury and postulates MSC therapy as a novel tool for organ preservation. (hindawi.com)
• Harm done in the preservation process, which stabilizes tissue as long as may be necessary to reverse the process, is potentially less than the harm of not acting at all. (alcor.org)
• What are the timing and criteria used to make decisions about termination of life support, declaration of death, and organ preservation and recovery efforts? (nap.edu)
• Especially these groups of potential donor hearts, which are the majority of the offered organs in certain regions, would profit from improved cardiac preservation strategies. (lww.com)
• A complete different concept of cardiac preservation is continuous blood perfusion of donor organs. (lww.com)
• A new FDA draft guidance provides recommendations for using animal studies to evaluate organ preservation devices. (wolterskluwer.com)
• Recommendations regarding best practices for utilizing animal studies for the evaluation of organ preservation devices were provided by the FDA in a draft guidance. (wolterskluwer.com)
• The FDA acknowledged that the best practices for conducting animal studies to evaluate organ preservation devices are evolving alongside the rapid advancement in such technologies. (wolterskluwer.com)
• The time to successfully annulate and connect the organ t the device should be evaluated during the preservation phase. (wolterskluwer.com)
• New organ preservation technologies has allowed the potential to monitor and assess organs ex vivo prior to transplantation, however there are some limitations that should be taken into consideration. (wolterskluwer.com)
• Ex vivo machine perfusion (MP) has emerged in an effort to expand the donor pool, by improving organ preservation, providing diagnostic information, and more recently, acting as a platform for organ improvement. (readbyqxmd.com)
• The application of a tailored approach to DCD heart transplantation that focuses on organ resuscitation at the time of procurement, ex situ preservation, and pre-transplant assessments of organ viability has facilitated the successful clinical application of DCD heart transplantation. (frontiersin.org)

Severe shortage3

• Even though Taiwan was one of the first Asian countries to perform renal transplant surgery in 1968, it has suffered from a severe shortage of transplantable organs for more than four decades due to a low organ donation rate. (plos.org)
• There is a severe shortage of organs for transplant. (sinnfein.ie)
• Yet there is still a severe shortage of donor organs in the United States. (liverfoundation.org)

Transplantable organs2

• The OPU process takes 12 to 24 hours, and all efforts are done to maximize the quantity and quality of transplantable organs. (ectrx.org)
• Animal and artificial organs may also serve as transplantable organs. (slideshare.net)

Patients31

• With rising numbers of patients being added to organ transplant waiting lists, the imbalance between organ supply and demand is ever increasing. (medscape.com)
• Researchers suggest that this liver tissue could be used in place of donor organs during liver transplantation or during the bridge period until a suitable donor is available for patients with acute liver failure. (healthcanal.com)
• According to Pietroski, 86% of all deceased organ donations last year in the United States came from DBD patients. (cnn.com)
• The continuing growth in demand in North America is fuelled by an aging population, increased longevity, higher rates of obesity associated with organ failure, and improvements in the efficacy of organ transplantation, especially for sicker and fragile patients. (cmaj.ca)
• If the family consents, all patients with brain death must be transferred to the organ procurement unit. (ectrx.org)
• To minimize the number of "failed donations" (and to reduce their related costs), we studied 685 patients with brain death who were transferred to the Masih Daneshvari Organ Procurement Unit (Tehran, Iran) from 2016 to 2018 in terms of their outcomes. (ectrx.org)
• Over the past few decades, there have been gains over several obstacles to make organ transplant an effective life-saving treatment for many patients. (ectrx.org)
• Because the supply of deceased donor organs fails to meet demand, patients needing a transplant frequently have lengthy waits or die while waiting. (ebscohost.com)
• BACKGROUND: The disparity between the number of patients waiting for an organ transplant and availability of donor organs increases each year in Canada. (ebscohost.com)
• The poorer outcomes of the overseas groups may be due to more older patients, more comorbidities (KT), or more hepatocellular carcinoma recurrences (LT). After domestic reform and international ethical challenges, the numbers of organ tourism decreased but the practice still persisted surreptitiously. (plos.org)
• Could these technologies help bring lifesaving tissues and organs to patients in need? (harvard.edu)
• Every year thousands of patients die while waiting for organ transplantation. (springer.com)
• Guidelines have been established to ensure that all patients on the waiting list have a fair chance at receiving the organ they need regardless of age, sex, race, lifestyle, or social status. (kidney.org)
• Objective To determine whether collaborative requesting increases consent for organ donation from the relatives of patients declared dead by criteria for brain stem death. (bmj.com)
• The most common reason why organs for transplantation are not obtained from patients after confirmation of brain stem death on an intensive care unit in the United Kingdom is the refusal of consent by the patient's relatives. (bmj.com)
• The health provider and advocacy group also says the anti-abortion group posing as a medical research procurement company may have had access to the inside of its clinics, jeopardizing "our patients' privacy and dignity. (infowars.com)
• All patients accepted by a kidney transplant program are registered on the national organ transplant waiting list. (memorialmedical.com)
• Highly-sensitized patients will be good matches for a limited number of organ offers, so they often wait longer than non-sensitized candidates. (memorialmedical.com)
• If there are no suitable local matches, organs are offered to patients at transplant centers throughout the region. (memorialmedical.com)
• This program generates a list of patients ranked according to objective medical criteria such as blood type, tissue type, size of the organ and patient's medical urgency. (memorialmedical.com)
• The computerized matching process locates the best possible matches between donated organs and the patients who need them, but the final decision to accept an organ rests with the patient's transplant program team. (memorialmedical.com)
• We recently discovered that patients with essential hypertension have a markedly impaired capacity for stimulated release of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) from vascular endothelium. (biomedsearch.com)
• A major limitation is donor shortage: the discrepancy between available organs and patients on the waiting lists increases continuously during the last two decades. (lww.com)
• The principle of presumed consent will operate only with regard to organs available for donation to other patients and will not extend to reproductive organs, other tissues and organs for research. (sinnfein.ie)
• There is a vast discrepancy between the number of patients waiting for organ transplantation and the available donor organs. (readbyqxmd.com)
• To combat yet another shortfall, some American doctors are routinely removing pieces of tissue from deceased patients for transplant without their, or their families , prior consent. (independent.org)
• This paper addresses the medical, legal and ethical issues associated with the proposal to increase the organ pool by considering the use of hepatitis C organs to save lives of patients with end-stage organ diseases. (ispub.com)
• (A) Patients donating organs after brain death have intact cardiorespiratory function that allows donor heart evaluation to be undertaken before organ procurement. (frontiersin.org)
• Many patients, however, die waiting for a new organ. (newsday.com)
• Strict rules and regulations are put in place to make sure patients have a fair chance at receiving vital organs. (empowher.com)
• Organ Selling is a website dedicated to ending the organ shortage and the attendant needless suffering and death each year of thousands of prospective organ transplant patients simply by allowing monetary compensation for cadaveric organs, which will greatly increase the supply. (organselling.com)

Cadaver8

• The measure which is the subject of Hamer and Rivlin's paper (p 196 ) 3 concerns the automatic availability of all cadaver organs-a measure, which I first advocated publicly in 1983. (bmj.com)
• In recent years, ethical and policy concerns have shifted from efforts to tweak the ethical framework governing cadaver donation from an opt-in, voluntary, altruistic policy to heated debates about how to modify the framework to receive more organs. (cmaj.ca)
• Another policy idea that has been around for many years is to shift cadaver procurement from an opt-in to an opt-out system. (cmaj.ca)
• Markets for donated organs, presumed consent and shifting the line between life and death to permit cadaver donation are not likely to come to pass in Canada or the US.What then? (cmaj.ca)
• including whether the market should allow cadaver organs, living organs, or both. (highbeam.com)
• We propose the sale of cadaver organs be legalized and a regulated market for organs be instituted. (highbeam.com)
• Regulation of the proposed market for cadaver organs will be discussed in detail in Part V. The proposed market is not a futures market, so it will not permit one to sell their organs in advance of their death. (highbeam.com)
• The second way organ donation can increase is by expansion of cadaver donation. (organselling.com)

Waiting for an organ transplant1

• Each day, approximately twenty people die while waiting for an organ transplant. (ispub.com)

Pancreas2

• The pancreas is a retroperitoneal organ that serves two functions: exocrine - it produces pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes endocrine - it produces several important hormones Anatomy The pancreas is a retroperitoneal organ located posterior to the stomach on the posterior abdominal wall. (statemaster.com)
• Next, the liver and pancreas usually are resected en bloc and then separated on the back table. (baldforbieber.com)

Tendons1

• The New York Police Department later interviewed the families of 1,077 people whose bodies were raided for spines, bones, tendons, and other tissues. (thefreelibrary.com)

Human organs7

• This does not mean a property right which means they do not have a right to transfer, devise, possess, and lease the human organs and tissues. (wikipedia.org)
• H. Barry Jacobs, the head of a Virginia company, announced in 1983 a new plan to buy and sell human organs on the market. (wikipedia.org)
• NOTA was a response to this proposal making it criminal to transfer human organs for valuable consideration for the purposes of a human transplantation. (wikipedia.org)
• Duties of the Task Force include: handling all medical, legal, ethical, economic, and social issues that may rise from obtaining deceased human organs and the transplantation of them. (wikipedia.org)
• There is an acute shortage of transplantable human organs worldwide. (scielo.org.za)
• 2002. Indians selling human organs, 15 October. (scielo.org.za)
• Harvesting human organs for sale! (independent.org)

Liver Transplantation4

• Liver transplantation surgery involves the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver from a deceased organ donor or part of a liver from a living donor. (nm.org)
• The relative shortage of donor organs provides the basis for many of the ethical issues associated with liver transplantation. (uptodate.com)
• This review focuses on three major challenges facing liver transplantation in the United States and discusses new areas of investigation that address each issue: (1) the need for an expanded number of useable donor organs, (2) the need for improved therapies to treat recurrent hepatitis C after transplantation and (3) the need for improved detection, risk stratification based upon tumor biology and molecular inhibitors to combat hepatocellular carcinoma. (cbw.com)
• This trend mirrors the annual liver transplantation rate and reinforces the fact that liver transplantation in the United States is driven, and limited, by the supply of usable donor organs. (cbw.com)

Critical shortage of organs3

• Donation and transplantation save lives, but there is a critical shortage of organs in Virginia and nationwide. (lifenethealth.org)
• There is a critical shortage of organs in the United States and in Virginia," Reynolds said. (dailypress.com)
• But years of lagging in donor registration policies have left the state with a critical shortage of organs. (pressconnects.com)

Livers2

• the way the procurement of cadaveric donor livers would be billed. (thefreedictionary.com)
• Livers are the second most in-demand organ for transplant. (froedtert.com)

Ethical9

• Other ethical issues include transplantation tourism (medical tourism) and more broadly the socio-economic context in which organ procurement or transplantation may occur. (wikipedia.org)
• Legal and ethical aspects of organ transplantation / David Price. (who.int)
• The Act raised ethical concerns that organ donation should not trump other end-of-life management decisions such as refusal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intubation [ 5 ]. (uptodate.com)
• To fulfill this mission, the AATB publishes Standards to ensure that the conduct of tissue banking meets acceptable norms of technical and ethical performance. (healthfinder.gov)
• Another area of ethical concern is the dilemma posed by the shortage of donor organs. (britannica.com)
• Are the same ethical principles that guide the organ procurement industry an appropriate guide for the cryonics industry? (alcor.org)
• This article explores the ethical similarities and differences between cryonics practice today and the practice of medicine, with specific emphasis on the organ transplantation industry. (alcor.org)
• This workshop, "The Medical and Ethical Issues in Maintaining the Viability of Organs for Transplantation" was held at the IOM and was open to the public. (nap.edu)
• However, the ethical and medical issues involved in enhanced NHBD procurement are not clear. (nap.edu)

Machine Perfusion4

• The guidance applies to devices intended to preserve human vascularized organs via machine perfusion from the time of organ procurement until transplant. (wolterskluwer.com)
• Organs should be weight before and after reperfusion to assess the risk of machine perfusion-related edema. (wolterskluwer.com)
• Machine perfusion of thoracic organs. (readbyqxmd.com)
• This article summarizes recent knowledge and clinical advances in machine perfusion (MP) of thoracic organs. (readbyqxmd.com)

Time of organ procurement2

• At the time of organ procurement, donated organs are disconnected from blood circulation and preserved in ice-cold solution before transplantation. (helsinki.fi)
• Advances in our understanding of ischemic post-conditioning have facilitated the development of DCD heart resuscitation strategies that can be used to minimize ischemia-reperfusion injury at the time of organ procurement. (frontiersin.org)

Suitable5

• Seventy-four (11%) of 683 deceased children were found to be suitable for organ donation and 132 (19%) for tissue donation. (nih.gov)
• National required request laws mandate that families of every medically suitable potential donor be offered the option to donate organs and tissues. (medscape.com)
• The lack of suitable organs for all who could benefit leads to longer waiting times and greater morbidity and mortality. (medscape.com)
• 2 Many people will wait months or years for a suitable organ, and some will not survive long enough to get a transplant. (froedtert.com)
• Overall, the clinical impact of cardiac transplantation is limited by a critical shortage of suitable donor organs ( 5 , 6 ). (frontiersin.org)

Fetal tissue2

• While the UAGA in every state permits the mother to donate fetal tissue for transplant research and therapy, eight states ban the experimental use of dead aborted fetuses. (thefreedictionary.com)
• In the video, Russo confirms that her affiliate is working with a for-profit biotech company, DaVinci Biosciences, to harvest the organs of aborted fetuses to sell nationally and internationally - and, just as other Planned Parenthood affiliates in California have confirmed on video their longtime relationships with fetal tissue procurement agencies, this is not a new relationship. (liveaction.org)

Donate Their Organs2

• Why Don't More People Want to Donate Their Organs? (theatlantic.com)
• If they died, their guardians could still decide to donate their organs, but it wasn't automatic - no heart icon on a driver's license that said to doctors, "this is what I want. (pressconnects.com)

Commonly transplanted1

• The liver is the second most commonly transplanted major organ, after the kidney. (medscape.com)

Reduce the organ shortage1

• Rising public awareness about organ transplantation should continue to reduce the organ shortage. (medscape.com)

People25

• On average, 17 people in this country die every day - 6,600 each year - waiting for organ transplant. (pressherald.com)
• We need to work with education and management to maximize opportunity for organ donation for those people that do succumb to brain death. (cnn.com)
• Due to a shortage in organs but a growing demand for transplantations, people began to use other means to purchase organs outside of a hospital setting. (wikipedia.org)
• Nearly 113,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant in the U.S. More than 2,500 of them are in Virginia. (lifenethealth.org)
• Signing that organ-donation pledge may mean you help dozens of people. (familydoctormag.com)
• Lethal myths that prevent people from donating desperately needed organs. (familydoctormag.com)
• Q. Are particular types of people especially needed for organ donation? (familydoctormag.com)
• Mission: To serve as a national voice and inspire all people to save and enhance lives through organ, eye and tissue donation. (wordpress.com)
• CDC noted that 5 other people received tissue implants from the same cadaveric donor and were not infected. (thefreedictionary.com)
• Given this shortage of organs, why don't more people donate? (theatlantic.com)
• But experts say there is a large disparity between the number of people who say that they support organ donation in theory and the number of people who actually register. (theatlantic.com)
• What keeps well-intentioned people from ultimately donating is something that academics, doctors, and organ-donation activists are trying to figure out. (theatlantic.com)
• In a recent literature review , researchers at the University of Geneva examined several social and psychological reasons why people choose not to donate, either by not registering as an organ donor during their lives, or electing not to donate the organs of their next of kin. (theatlantic.com)
• Because there are many people waiting, and a serious shortage of donor organs, the waiting period can be quite long. (crozerkeystone.org)
• More than 100,000 people in the United States are in need of an organ transplant, yet only 26,000 transplantations occurred last year. (montefiore.org)
• Nationally, more than 123,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant. (core.org)
• I am listed as an organ donor because I know people who have desperately needed a liver or a kidney or a heart, and I always figured if I wound up brain-dead after a horrible accident, at least somebody would get some good out it. (commondreams.org)
• The list of people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant is more than 113,600 names long, 1 and every 10 minutes, another person is added to the list. (froedtert.com)
• When you register to be an organ donor, you perform an invaluable service for thousands of people in need. (liverfoundation.org)
• Israel is implementing a no give, no take system that puts people who opt out of the donor system at the bottom of the transplant waiting list should they ever need an organ. (independent.org)
• Presently, over 115,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. (ispub.com)
• Every organ donor can save as many as 10 people. (metafilter.com)
• Many people are alive today and leading productive lives because medical science has become so skilled in transplanting some essential organs. (empowher.com)
• It is illegal for people to buy or sell organs in the United States. (empowher.com)
• People are dying while the organs that could restore them to life, and that a market would provide, are being fed to worms. (organselling.com)

Lungs4

• This experimental option, not yet approved by the FDA, may lead to better ways to keep lungs (the most fragile of organs) stable during transplant. (nm.org)
• However, if a patient is connected to a ventilator, allowing the heart to continue to beat and the lungs tp continue to pump air throughout the body, the organs remain healthy and viable for transplantation. (cnn.com)
• This operation is usually performed for cystic fibrosis as both lungs need to be replaced and it is a technically easier operation to replace the heart and lungs en bloc. (wikidoc.org)
• Even if the heart and lungs are not procured, the chest is opened so as to optimize exposure of the intraabdominal organs, especially the liver. (baldforbieber.com)

Immunosuppressive1

• This however will result in the receiver of organs to take immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their body's antibodies rejecting and destroying the new organ. (wikidoc.org)

Next of8

• Rather than attempt to secure permission for organ donation from shocked and emotionally distraught family and friends, a two-step approach that exhibits appropriate respect for family and next of kin of the newly deceased might greatly expand the potential donor pool. (cmaj.ca)
• Procurement agencies generally exceed the provisions of the statute and ask for consent from the next of kin/legal decision-maker even when there is a signed donor card or online organ donation registration, to be sure that the family/legal decision-maker is in support of donation. (uptodate.com)
• A number of states adopted a revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1987) stipulating that the next of kin/legal decision-maker need not consent to organ donation if the deceased made his or her wishes known in writing to a clinician prior to death. (uptodate.com)
• The last potential type of sale involves a decedent's next of kin contracting for the sale of the decedent's organs or parts after the decedent's death. (highbeam.com)
• A. In almost all states, your legal next of kin must sign consent for your organs to be used , even if you gave permission. (familydoctormag.com)
• In the absence of legal consent via registration as an organ donor, organ procurement representatives are required to consult with next of kin for authorization to obtain organs from the deceased person. (britannica.com)
• Some participants indicated that they wouldn't donate the organs of their next of kin if his or her heart were still beating, even if they were proclaimed brain-dead. (theatlantic.com)
• They've created the country's first-ever centralized registry and are now working to emphasize the need for conversations surrounding organ donation to take place among next-of-kin. (liverfoundation.org)

Ethically2

• The Council stated: 'It is ethically preferable for the individual, rather than the family, to decide to donate organs' [ 4 ]. (uptodate.com)
• It is clear to us that, due to the many lives that could be saved, a market for organs is morally and ethically superior to the current altruistic procurement system. (organselling.com)

Potential organ4

• There is the deceased individual and her friends and relatives on the one hand, and the potential organ or tissue recipient and her friends and relatives on the other. (bmj.com)
• We must remember that while the organ donor may have a posthumous preference frustrated, (more of which anon) and her friends and relatives may be distressed and upset, the potential organ recipient stands to lose her very life and her friends and relatives will have grief to add to their distress. (bmj.com)
• 1 Although in the UK the Human Tissue Act 2004 prioritises the wishes and consent of the potential organ donor over his or her relatives, it is almost inconceivable that organs would be retrieved from a deceased donor against the wishes of relatives. (bmj.com)
• Under that standard, everyone is considered to be a potential organ donor unless they have affirmatively opted out, say, by signing a non-organ-donor card. (independent.org)

Hospitals1

• We demonstrate the economic (profit) incentive of hospitals and physicians to maintain a procurement system that relies upon altruistic (zero price) supply despite the shortage that such a system creates. (organselling.com)

Donor registry4

• The organ and tissue donor registry is both federal and state based. (washingtoninformer.com)
• Each organ or tissue donor can save many lives, and becoming one is simple: join your State's donor registry, indicate your decision on your driver's license, and inform loved ones of your decision. (greatermkemen.com)
• This awareness campaign offers the opportunity for community college campuses across the state to involve students in promoting awareness and registration in the Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Registry. (lifegoeson.com)
• The Secretary of State's office announces implementation of the Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Registry, making Illinois one of only three states in the country to maintain such a listing. (lifegoeson.com)

Availability of donor organs1

• One solution to the problem of sensibilities would, I have suggested, be to provide for the automatic or mandatory availability of donor organs. (bmj.com)

Thoracic2

• Thoracic surgeons remove small wedges of damaged lung tissue in order to help the remaining lung tissue function more efficiently. (nm.org)
• MP of thoracic organs has gained much attention during the last decade. (readbyqxmd.com)

Driver's license1

• A common way of doing so is on a driver's license application or by an organ donor designation, such as a sticker, on the driver's license. (drugs.com)

Allografts2

• A subset of allografts in which organs or tissues are transplanted from a donor to a genetically identical recipient (such as an identical twin). (wikipedia.org)
• Allografts can either be used immediately after procurement or cryopreserved for later use. (scielo.org.za)

Donation after cardiac death2

• in addition, the heart may stop beating before organ donation, and we have no donation after cardiac death facilities. (ectrx.org)
• Faced with devastating organ shortages, the organ transplant industry is testing new approaches, including extracorporeal interval support and donation after cardiac death, or DCD. (alcor.org)

Viable3

• With only about one in 1,000 deaths leading to a viable organ for transplant, millions would need to sign up to have enough organs to offer those who pledge to donate. (drugs.com)
• The motive is to increase the number of viable organ donations, thus saving more lives, but the ethics are tricky. (alcor.org)
• The transplant center evaluates the patient's health and mental status as well as the level of social support to see if the person is a viable candidate for an organ transplant. (slideshare.net)

Supply of transplant organs1

• Increasing the supply of transplant organs: the virtues of a futures market. (scielo.org.za)

Injury prior to organ procurement1

• The explanation for this lies in the process of brain death (BD) itself resulting in a non-physiological environment culminating in significant organ injury prior to organ procurement. (biomedcentral.com)

Nation's4

• HSB oversees the nation's organ, bone marrow and cord blood donation and transplantation systems, poison control and vaccine injury compensation programs, and a drug discount program for certain safety-net health care providers. (healthfinder.gov)
• To address the nation's critical organ donation shortage and improve the organ matching and placement process, the U.S. Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984. (wordpress.com)
• Statistics and data on the nation's transplant centers (survival rates, number of organs transplanted, median wait times, etc. (wordpress.com)
• Waiting for Life: NY's critical organ shortage New York has the nation's third lowest donor registration rate, and there's a massive discrepancy between counties that's left doctors puzzled. (pressconnects.com)

Xenotransplantation2

• Xenotransplantation - Will It Bring the Solution to Organ Shortage? (worldwidescience.org)
• The prospect of using living, nonhuman organs, and concerns over the infectiousness of pathogens either present in the tissues or possibly formed in combination with human genetic material, have prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue detailed guidance on xenotransplantation research and development since the mid-1990s. (harvard.edu)

Solution to the organ shortage1

• What is the solution to the organ shortage? (metafilter.com)

Registering as an organ donor1

• For example, there is no age limit for registering as an organ donor. (montefiore.org)

Address the shortage1

• 4. ANNA supports efforts to resolve the nursing shortage, including measures to assure appropriate funding to address the shortage of nursing faculty and the availability of nursing mentors for new graduates and nurses with little practice experience. (docplayer.net)

Registry3

• When a person enters a Driver Services facility, he/she is provided with information about organ/tissue donation and asked if he/she wishes to join the registry. (lifegoeson.com)
• Since its inception in 2007, approximately 350 Montefiore Medical Center employees have committed to be an organ donor, and from 2007 to 2008, the New York Donor Network Registry leaped from 36,325 individuals from the Bronx to 45,529 - an increase of more than 9,000 community residents signing up to help save a life. (montefiore.org)
• Organ cards can be obtained at your local Registry of Motor Vehicles or downloaded from the Organ and Tissue Donor Initiative . (empowher.com)

Centers3

• Even in well-developed countries, the organ and tissue donation process has special complexities for relatively newer centers. (ectrx.org)
• Both AMCs have also set up multiorgan transplant centers (SingHealth Transplant at SDNUS and National University Centre for Organ Transplantation at NUHS) to integrate services across different programs while advancing academic transplantation. (lww.com)
• Many health plans ask organ transplant candidates, if they are well enough, to wait for their organ at a motel or hotel near a registered United States transplant centers. (empowher.com)

Global organ shortage1

• However, in the past two decades, the global organ shortage has led to the development of transplant tourism: the practice of traveling outside one's own country to obtain organ transplantation, which often involves organ trade or trafficking [ 1 ]. (plos.org)

National organ2

• 4 National Organ Transplant Unit, Ministry of Health, Singapore. (lww.com)
• To remedy this problem, a number of prominent physicians, ethicists, economists and others have mounted a campaign to suspend the prohibitions in the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA) on the buying and selling of organs. (nih.gov)

Retrieval of organs1

• Recovery" refers to the retrieval of organs or tissues from a deceased organ donor. (wikipedia.org)