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These offer opportunities for volunteering and helping to raise awareness about the importance of registering as a donor at a local level.
What is Organ procurement organizations?
Knowing their loved one helped save other lives.
Medical professionals at a hospital identify a potential candidate for donation. The nature of the injury leads a physician to determine the patient is brain dead or a potential donation after circulatory death candidate.
What is Identification of the Potential Donor by the Hospital?
The donor is taken to the operating room where the organs and tissues are recovered through a dignified surgical procedure.
What is Surgical Recovery of Organs?
To encourage donor sign-ups, OPOs may reach out to communities.
What is increasing the number of registered donors.
Helping a host of other people who may now be able to live a fuller life.
What is it improves others’ quality of life?
Includes a medical and social history and physical examination of the patient
What is Evaluation of Donor Eligibility?
Upon the organs' arrival at the transplant hospital, the recipients are taken to surgery and the transplants are performed.
What is Preparing Recipients for Surgery?
Evaluate the potential donors, check the deceased’s state donor registry, discuss donation with family members, contact the OPTN computer system that matches donors and recipients, obtain a match list for that specific donor, and arrange for the recovery and transport of donated organs.
What is Coordinating the donation process?
Everything is covered by the transplant recipient and organ recovery organization.
What is it's free?
The family must give their consent in order for the donation process to proceed. If the family consents, the legal next-of-kin signs a donor consent form.
What is Authorization for Organ Recovery?
Lymph node tissue is taken to a laboratory for tissue typing and subsequent matching with recipients.
What is Distribution of Organs?
This will employ quasi-experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of a 40-minute health education session design to measure students’ knowledge, opinions, and behaviors related to the organ donation/transplantation process.
What is a Multicultural Urban High School Intervention Program?
See who’s life you’ve improved first-hand by choosing to become a living donor.
What is seeing who you've affected?
The heart, liver and lungs are matched by blood type and body size. In matching the pancreas and kidneys, genetic tissue type is also considered.
What is Matching Organs to Potential Recipients?
The donor family can proceed with funeral or burial plans.
What is Funeral and Burial Plans?
A teacher training program and a class-assigned family interview, the project provides high school students with the knowledge and incentive to promote family discussion and shared decision-making about organ donation.
What is "Talk It Up:" Students and Families Discussing Organ Donation
An easy way to make a lasting and worthwhile impact on the world after you are gone
What is making a difference?
When a recipient match has been found, a coordinator calls the transplant center for the patient who matches the donated organ.
What is Placing Organs and Coordinating Recovery?
When each donation by sending letters to the donor family, hospital staff, physicians and nurses regarding the organs and tissues that have been recovered is done.
What is Follow-up with Family and Hospital?