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This is the most commonly transplanted organ.
What is the kidney?
The cost to donate organs.
What is $0.
There is no cost to donors or their families for organ and tissue donation.
True or false?
Only those aged 18 to 59 can sign up to be organ donors.
False.
There is no age restriction for donation or to sign up. In 2021, one out of every three people who donated organs was over the age of 50. You’re never too old to make a difference — as of 2021, the oldest organ donor in the United States was 92.
This organ can regrow itself.
What is the liver.
This gender is responsible for the majority of eye donation at 60%.
What is the male gender?
This organ can be split and transplanted to two patients.
What is the liver?
One organ donor can save up to this many lives.
What is eight lives?
You can become an organ donor by marking the appropriate box when applying or renewing this.
What is driver's license or ID card?
It’s also important to share your wishes with your family. Most families want to carry out the wishes of their loved one. Be sure to tell them how you feel.
This color heart on a NC driver's license indicates that you want to be a donor.
What is red?
As transplants become more safe and successful demand goes up creating what list?
Transplant waiting list.
As transplants become more safe and successful demand goes up , but people being organ donors aren't growing as fast.
Each day, 20 people in the United States die while waiting for organ transplants. Nationally, there are more than 100,000 people waiting for an organ transplant.
These are the only two life-saving organs that can be donated by a living donor?
What are the liver and kidneys?
The same donor can improve lives of up to this many people by donating tissues and corneas.
What is 50 people?
You can donate and receive organs in this country even if you don’t live there or are a citizen.
What is the United States?
Doctors give organs to people based on medical need, not citizenship.
This is the only organ in the human body that cannot be transplanted.
What is the brain?
These surgeries have as high as a 95% success rate.
What are (organ and tissue) transplant surgeries?
Medication and medical advances have resulted in transplant surgeries today that are very successful.
There are this many organs within the human body and almost all can be donated.
What is 78.
In the U.S., this many people are projected to die each day waiting for an organ.
What is 18 people?
This country has the highest organ donation rate.
What is Spain?
Spain is widely considered the gold standard in organ donation because it has had the highest organ donation rate of any other country in the world, with 35.3 organ donors per million people. (This compares with 26 organ donors per million people in the United States.)
The number of people on the transplant wait list.
What is 100,000 people?
This organ is most commonly transplanted with the kidney.
What is pancreas?
Another name is added to the organ transplant list every ___ minutes.
What is ten minutes?
The federal organization of organ donation for North Carolina.
What is Carolina Donor Services?
Most of these in the U.S. support organ donation. They consider it an act of love and generosity.
What are (major) religions?
Organ donation is consistent with the beliefs of most major religions. These religions include Roman Catholicism, Islam, most branches of Judaism and most Protestant faiths. If you're unsure of or uncomfortable with your faith's position on organ donation, ask a member of your clergy.
Name at least two medical factors used in determining who receives an organ transplant.
What is the size of the organ, blood type, degree of illness?
When you donate organs, you are doing this.
What is saving (improving) lives and/or helping others?