What are the steps used as to Who and how decisions are made regarding who will get an organ transplant first?
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Well, there are lists for all the different blood types, organ sizes.  Once your blood type and organ size is determined, they put you on the list.  In some rare instances, they can put you on the top of the list if you really need the transplant.
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Human liver transplant was first performed by Thomas Starzl in USA and Roy Calne in England in 1963 and 1965 respectively. Liver transplantation is the only option for those with irreversible liver failure. Most transplants are done for chronic liver diseases leading to cirrhosis, such as chronic hepatitis C, alcoholism, autoimmune hepatitis, and many others. Less commonly, liver transplantation is done for fulminant hepatic failure, in which liver failure occurs over days to weeks. Liver allografts for transplant usually come from non-living donors who have died from fatal brain injury. Living donor liver transplantation is a technique in which a portion of a living person's liver is removed and used to replace the entire liver of the recipient. This was first performed in 1989 for pediatric liver transplantation. Only 20% of an adult's liver (Couinaud segments 2 and 3) is needed to serve as a liver allograft for an infant or small child. More recently, adult-to-adult liver transplantation has been done using the donor's right hepatic lobe which amounts to 60% of the liver. Due to the ability of the liver to regenerate, both the donor and recipient end up with normal liver function if all goes well.
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that's actually a funny question I worked in organ transplant before.\n\nRN - There are several roles for nurses in organ transplant. the nurse does everything from managing the donor, allocate the organs, work with the recipients\n\nTransplant surgeon - they recover the organs and transplant\n\nHistotechnologist - the do the genetic testing to make sure the organs are a good match. They also do testing to make sure the donor doesn't have any communicable diseases\n\nCourier - they move the organs from one place to another, take lab specimens to different labs\n\nSurgical technicians - they help the surgeons recover the organs\n\nOrgan placement specialists - they place the organs for transplant, run the lists, fax charts, ets
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Primarily because one can get donors from the family, thus reducing the chances of foreign proteins causing rejection.  Kidney transplants come from living people, thus are always extremely fresh-and the person can be carefully chosen to match a great number of protein markers.  This is not true for heart transplants, which must come from terminal victims, and in which they must merely take the best match, no matter how bad it is.
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I think you should have a say so of who gets your organs, after all they are legally your organs.  But then again after you die and can't really fight for who gets what, the people who do decide who & where your organs go could tell you that those degenerates you mentioned above won't get your organs, but then turn around and give them to the degenerates anyway.  What can you say your dead!  So it doesn't matter to them!
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Yes, Im an organ donor. It doesnt matter which parts they use. If I have them, and they need them, they can take them. I dont understand why people wouldnt be organ donors. What good are they to you after you die? so they can rot away in a grave? I find that very selfish, when thousands and thousands of people are waiting for donations because without them they'll die. Obviously if I'm dead theyre not doing me any good anymore so why not let someone else have them?\nI like helping people..so if I can help people even after I die, how great is that?
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You can ask the donor to please involve their parents to be involved and informed in their decision to be an organ donor...parents have the ultimate say so when it come to these issues...\n\nHope this helped...
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An organ transporter? Or an organ donor? To donate organs, you can check the box on your drivers-liscense application, but make sure you discuss your wishes with your family because even if it says "organ donor" on your drivers liscense your family still has the last say. If you want to transport organs, become a surgeon.
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my uncle received a heart and kidney transplant that gave him life for an additional 13 years...someone elses loss gave us more time to enjoy our family member...am i selfish, yes? am i grateful to those who lost a beautiful woman, yes! yes, because they in their time of sorrow were able to give the gift to us--total strangers....so, my answer is of course my organs are being donated....
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I had a kidney transplant about 9 months ago. I looked up at the clock in the operating room at about 9 a.m., they said they were going to start... Then I became aware of a pain in my side and saw a clock in a different room that said about 1 o'clock.  I only knew they had done the surgery because of the pain and the clock. It was not like sleeping. I was not aware at all during the time I was "out". It was just a total blank. When I'm asleep, I still have some awareness of time passing, I think, but not so when I was under anesthesia.\nOne of the nurses in the recovery room asked my aunt who gave me the kidney, "Who did you give your kidney to?" My aunt was still pretty out of it, but she obviously didn't remember anything either -- she said, "I haven't given it to her yet."  :-)\n\nP.S. The pain upon "coming to" was not too bad. They have lots of good meds to help with the pain.
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Kidney transplants usually extend a patients life somewhere in the range of 10-20 years, assuming that the body does not reject the new organ and no other complications occur.\n\nIt is unusual for a patient suffering from chronic autoimmune disease such as Lupus to be eligible for a kidney transplant. Lupus attacks the bodies cells and organs making rejection incredibly likely.\n\nBest of luck to you and your sister.
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provide payment before dealth for such organs, or payment for kidneys, this puts you in a battle of right vs wrong, in some other countries(china) dealth row inmates organs are used, but i think most people do sign up weather or not their organs are used is another story, with americans living longer the organs that can be used are from early in life dealths, car accidents, etc..
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Wow, this opens up a can of worms.  Be prepared to duck; you may get some very sharpish answers!\n\nFor what it's worth (FWIW), I've heard that some very conservative Christians are not very happy with the idea of organ donation because they want to be resurrected with all their parts.  \n\n(Personally, things are going to decay anyway, I figure, and I cannot see how an omnipotent Deity is going to be slowed up significantly if someone's minus a few tissues....But I'll leave it for such believers to believe as they choose, and if I've misunderstood their doctrine, hope they'll accept it as an honest goof and not malicious.)   \n\nI understand that some of the more conservative Jewish groups feel that autopsies and such are disrespectful to the dead, and THINK that some Muslim groups have similar beliefs.  However, do NOT know whether the potential "good" and charity that can come from saving life overrides such "disrespect". \n\nI've found, again FWIW, that people in the more "liberal"  denominations (examples:  Quaker/Friends, United Church of Christ), Unitarians, and Pagans/Wiccans tend to be very vigorously IN FAVOR of donating organs and tissues, on the basis of "hey, let's not waste them, and we can do some wonderful good for a number of people".  \n\nHowever, individual people may vary.  You may need to check for "policy papers" on organ donation for each separate spiritual denomination/belief, if you want better data....but this is going to be almost impossible for the atheists/agnostics, and also for the Pagans/Wiccans (because we're independent-minded and ornery as cats, and HAVE no centralized religious governing body to set policy).\n\nI signed the "organ donor" designation on my license right when turning legal age....and before that, told my parents to donate anything and everything as my last wish.  Was raised Lutheran (Missouri Synod---one of the more conservative L.), but now am a very happy Goddess-worshipping Pagan.
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check out transplant.com
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Beijing Xiehe Hospital seems to also be known as the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. The website is at\nwww.pumch.ac.cn/ \nbut it is in Chinese. If you search for it on google, it will offer to translate it for you. I don't know whether it has specific organ transplant info.\nHere's a link to the Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) info on kidney-pancreas transplants.\nhttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Transplant/Programs/kidneypancreas/
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fraking kid making us do his damn homework for him.. lazy @ss... JUST KIDDING glad to help a friend in need! here u go\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant
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Provided that it's flushed out properly, packaged carefully at the right temperature to reduce cell metabolism you're looking at about 4 to 5 hours. The transplant can still be performed after that, but the organ's life-span in the recipient decreases the longer it's not being perfused with oxygenated blood, which is why 'beating heart' donations are being looked at as a preferable option.