Name That Transplant
The most common organ transplant.
What is the kidney?
One organ donor can save up to this many lives.
What is 8 lives?
The age of the oldest and youngest donors in Quebec.
What is 48 hours and 88 years old?
The biggest and most obvious benefit for organ donation.
What is saving lives?
What are the two types of donors
What is living and deceased
This is the least commonly transplanted organ.
What are the intestines?
The same donor can improve lives of up to this many people by donating tissues and corneas.
What is 75 people?
The organization in charge of stem cells donation in Quebec.
What is Hema-Quebec?
This is a benefit for the Health Care System.
What is money saving?
This is an essential step to keep the organ useable for transplant.
Keep oxygen going through them.
This organ can be split and transplanted to two patients.
What is the liver?
These organs can be given by a living donor.
What are lungs, liver, and kidney?
The two manners you can signify that you would like to donate your organs (you may use the French names).
What are the Quebec Health Insurance Card or the Registre des consentements au don d’organes et de tissus?
A person who receives a kidney transplant will no longer have to get this.
What is dialysis?
These are the two steps to becoming a donor.
What is sign your health insurance card and inform your loved ones.
The organ most commonly transplanted with the kidney.
What is the pancreas?
This is the number of hours doctors have to transplant a heart.
In Quebec, this the number of people who have died day waiting for an organ in 2023.
a) 18. b) 343. c) 86. d) 41.
What is d) 41?
Sometimes, organ donation is not about saving a life but _____________ someone's life.
What is improving?
Name 2 medical factors used in determining who receives an organ transplant.
What is the size of organ, blood type, degree of illness, etc.
Blood stem cells are the crucial element responsible for these transplants.
What are bone marrow transplants?
In Quebec, this the number of people who have received an organ in 2023.
a) 396. b) 569. c) 356. d) 869
What is b) 569.
+/-20: The number of people on the Quebec transplant wait list.
What is 856?
The way in which organ donation can help the deceased's family.
What is help with the grieving process.
Kidneys transplants are more successful when the donor and recipient are from the same ______ or _____ background
What is racial or ethnic