The Consequences of Organ Donation The patient may either wait 3.7 years on dialysis before receiving a kidney‚ or be one of 229 Canadians that died waiting for an organ donation in 2010 (Ogilvie). Organ donation‚ through surgery‚ helps to save the lives of individuals with organ failure. With a high demand and low supply of organs‚ there are a considerable number of people on the waiting list. Even with different consent policies on organ donations‚ such as opt-out (where it is assumed one is willing
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Economies as Cultural Systems Organ Donation in China under the Ethics of Confucianism Introduction The subject of organ donation has evoked moral and ethical controversy across the globe since its inception and implies proper and voluntary consent of the person giving the organ. Though the practice is generally accepted‚ concerns arise when organs are harvested illicitly and sold at cost-value‚ making a commodity of so-called ‘donors’ and therefore of the human body‚ breaching ethics.
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Backgroung of organ donationin HK Despite medical advancement‚ organ transplant has become the only hope for some patients with organ failure in order to live on. However‚ the limited supply from donation of transplantable organs has made some 2000 local patients and their family waiting desperately‚ as the patients count their days in the fight against death. It is more regretful that many patients would die before the right organ match comes. To shorten patients’ waiting time for organ transplant
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Understanding Transplantation A Brief History In 1954‚ a kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully. Liver‚ heart‚ and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s‚ while lung and intestinal organ transplant procedures began in the 1980s.Until the early 1980s‚ the potential for organ rejection limited the number of transplants performed. Medical advances in the prevention and treatment of rejection led to more successful transplants and an increase
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Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body‚ from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. Transplantable organs and tissues are removed in a surgical procedure following a determination‚ based on the donor’s medical and social history‚ of which are suitable for transplantation. Such procedures are termed allotransplantations‚ to distinguish them from xenotransplantation‚ the transfer of animal organs into human bodies. As of
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EFFECTS OF ORGAN DONATION FACTS ABOUT ORGAN DONATION * Like any surgery‚ after the donation procedure‚ the wound is closed and no visible mark is present as a tell-tale sign of the surgery. * The organs are removed only after the patient is declared brain dead and within 12 to 24 hours‚ the organs are removed for transplantation. * The success rate of organ transplantation on an average is between 75% to 85%. * Kidney‚ lungs‚ heart‚ skin‚ pancreas‚ liver‚ bones‚ eyes and intestines
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dilemmas posed to the medical community by the practice of organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) and whether it violates any of the basic ethical principles of medicine. Cardiac death can only be declared on the basis of cardiopulmonary criteria of permanent cessation of circulatory and respiratory function and not on the basis of neurological criteria of irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain‚ which is used to declare brain death. In the landmark trial of Dr. Hootan Roozrahk; Dr. Roozrahk
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What is organ donation? Organ donation is a surgical procedure for the removal of organs from donor for the purpose of transplantation following an expressed consent that based on the donor’s medical and social history. There are two types of organ donation: a. Deceased organ donation Donation of organs by those who have just died recently. Deceased donation may come from accident casualties whose organs are still in good condition and suitable for transplant purposes. Retrieval of organs requires
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Gift of an Organ Donor June 3‚ 1993‚ marked a day of tragedy for the Cassani family after their fourteen month-old son‚ Colby‚ drowned and later died. In mourning the parents of Colby chose to donate their son’s organs which saved the lives of three other individuals (“Colby Cassani”). From a sorrowful calamity of a lost life sprang a gift to those in need of the functioning organs. However‚ despite the lifesaving potential the newly deceased could offer‚ the topic of organ donation seems blissfully
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Altruistic Organ Donation “I lay beneath the white sheets in anticipation for the potential surgery I am about to undergo. As the anesthetist wheels me to the prep room‚ I am swept behind the surgical room doors. ‘Am I doing the right thing? Will I be okay?’ All of these questions and more bombard my mind as the darkness begins to slowly eat away at my vision. With the last visages of light I had found comfort ‘I am doing the right thing‚ I’m saving a life’. I become overwhelmed by the darkness
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