Organ donation is
the process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person (the organ donor) and placing it into another person (the recipient)
. Transplantation is necessary because the recipient's organ has failed or has been damaged by disease or injury.
How do they do organ donation?
Organ donation is a life-saving and life-transforming medical process. Deceased organ and tissue donation involves
removing organs and tissues from someone who has died
(a donor) and transplanting them into someone who, in many cases, is very ill or dying (a recipient).
What happens to your body if you are an organ donor?
With organ donation,
the death of one person can lead to the survival of many others
. The donor is only kept alive by a ventilator, which their family may choose to remove them from. … This person would be considered legally dead when their heart stops beating.
What is bad about organ donation?
While few living donors die, there are
no reliable statistics
about donors' surgical complications. Existing data suggest that as many as one in three liver donors, for example, face complications such as additional surgery, hospitalization and extended recoveries.
Why you shouldn't be an organ donor?
During a study by the National Institutes of Health, those opposed to organ donation cited reasons such as
mistrust of the system and worrying that their organs would go to someone not deserving of them
(e.g., a “bad” person or someone whose poor lifestyle choices caused their illness).
Why you shouldn't donate your body to science?
The biggest drawback of donating your body is that
your family cannot have a service with the body present
. You can have a memorial service without a viewing. In some cases, the funeral home will allow for immediate family to have a closed viewing, much like an identification viewing.
What is the best organ to donate?
The organ most commonly given by a living donor is
the kidney
. Parts of other organs including the lung, liver and pancreas are now being transplanted from living donors.
What are the 5 steps of the organ donation process?
- Identification of the Potential Donor by the Hospital. …
- Evaluation of Donor Eligibility. …
- Authorization for Organ Recovery. …
- Medical Maintenance of the Patient. …
- Matching Organs to Potential Recipients. …
- Offering Organs Regionally, Then Nationally. …
- Placing Organs and Coordinating Recovery.
Who Cannot donate organs?
Certain conditions, such as having HIV,
actively spreading cancer
, or severe infection would exclude organ donation. Having a serious condition like cancer, HIV, diabetes, kidney disease, or heart disease can prevent you from donating as a living donor.
Do organ donors get paid?
They don't pay to donate your organs
. Insurance or the people who receive the organ donation pay those costs.
What is the hardest organ to get?
For my wife and I this is a great relief because of all the organs that get transplanted,
the lungs
are the toughest to get right. Today 80% of donor lungs get rejected by transplant teams. The image on the left in the picture below is a healthy harvested set of lungs and heart.
What is the easiest organ to transplant?
The liver
is the only visceral organ to possess remarkable regenerative potential. In other words, the liver grows back. This regenerative potential is the reason why partial liver transplants are feasible. Once a portion or lobe of the liver is transplanted, it will regenerate.
Is it good or bad to be an organ donor?
By donating your organs and tissue after you die, you can
save or improve as many as 75 lives
. Many families say that knowing their loved one helped save or improve other lives helped them cope with their loss. It's especially important to consider becoming an organ donor if you belong to an ethnic minority.
Do organ donors get free funerals?
Truth:
There is no cost to the donor's family for organ, eye and tissue donation
. … Expenses related to saving the individual's life and funeral costs remain the responsibility of the donor's family. Myth: Organ and tissue donors cannot have an open casket funeral.
Can I donate my heart while still alive?
The
heart must be donated by someone who is brain-dead but is still on life support
. The donor heart must be in normal condition without disease and must be matched as closely as possible to your blood and /or tissue type to reduce the chance that your body will reject it.
Do organ donors feel pain?
Deceased donors do not feel any pain during organ recovery
. Most major religious groups support organ and tissue donations.
