Donor Designation
Agencies
Laws Governing Donation
Vocabulary
Donation Process
100
Individuals self determination to make an anatomical gift of their body after an individual has been legally pronounced: organ, tissue eye and full body donation
What is First Person Authorization?
100
Manages the national transplant waiting list, matching donors to recipients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
What is UNOS?
100
Recognizes that the irreversible cessation of all brain functions constitutes death in the same way as cessation of heart beat and respiration.
What is Uniform Determination of Death Act 1976?
100
Irreversible cessation of cerebral and brain stem function; characterized by absence of electrical activity in the brain, blood flow to the brain, and brain function as determined by clinical assessment of responses.
What is Brain Death?
100
Heart Valves, Corneas, Bone, Skin, Tendons, Ligaments
What are the tissues that can be donated?
200
WLiving Will, Power of Attorney & Healthcare Proxy
What are 3 types of Advance Directives?
200
Developed standards that encompass all aspects of an OPO's operations and practice, offering a voluntary accreditation program to its members. The peer review process, conducted on-site, ensures compliance with federal regulations as well as this organization's standards.
What is AOPO - Association of Organ Procurement Organizations?
200
Established the legality of organ and tissue donation and donor designation; as well as the priority of legal next-of-kin for authorization in the absence of donor designation.
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1968, 1987, 2006) ?
200
The person(s) most closely related to a deceased individual as designated by law such as the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
What is " Next of Kin" ?
200
Lungs, Liver, Pancreas, Kidneys
What is living donor organs that can be transplanted?
300
In this type of system, unless an individual has expressly refused to donate or "opted out" by registering their objection to donating their organs, it is assumed that they do wish to be a donor.
What is Presumed Consent?
300
Regulates that hospitals must have a signed agreement with an Organ Procurement Organization and must notify the OPO of all imminent deaths and cardiac deaths in a timely manner.
What is CMS ?
300
True or False: A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift, not made by will, only by: A signed statement, an oral statement made in presence of two individuals, any form of communication by a terminal patient addressed to physician and/or surgeon or delivery of a signed statement to a specified donee
What is True? Bonus: 2001 Amendment to the Tennessee Code annotated
300
The removal or retrieval of organs from a donor for transplantation.
What is Organ Procurement?
300
A request made by a donor or donor family to transplant a specific recipient. This practice is legally authorized by the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) and by most state anatomical gift laws, which use the UAGA as a guide.
What is directed donation?
400
Dept. of Safety/Motor Vehicles, DLTN registry, Advance Directive
What are 3 legally recognized methods of becoming a designated organ and tissue donor in Tennessee?
400
TN 1995 Legislation enacted into law that created a non-profit organization to collect and distribute funds to support organ and tissue donation.
What is the Tennessee County Clerks Organ Donor Awareness Foundation, Inc?
400
Empowered the two Tennessee OPO's to establish an on-line state organ and tissue registry. Mandated OPO's work with the TN Dept of Safety to integrate their system that had been in place since 1990 with new web-based registry and recognizes the registry as first-person consent.
What is the 2006 Tennessee Donor Registry Legislation
400
The geographic area designated by CMS that is served by one organ procurement organization (OPO), one or more transplant centers, and one or more donor hospitals. Formerly referred to as Local Service Area or OPO Service Area.
What is Donation Service Area (DSA)?
400
12-24 hours
What is the organ preservation time for the liver?
500
The revocation, suspension expiration or cancellation of a TN license does not invalidate the anatomical gift. True or False
What is True?
500
The official U.S. Government Web site for organ donation and transplantation.
What is OrganDonor.gov?
500
The Federal mandate that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) coordinate the procurement and transplantation process at local levels. Requires hospitals to be affiliated with a federally mandated OPO and there will be no more than one designated organ procurement organization per service area.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986?
500
A kidney donated for transplantation from any brain dead donor over the age of 60 years; or from a donor over the age of 50 years with two of the following: a history of hypertension, a terminal serum creatinine greater than or equal to 1.5 mg/dl, or death resulting from a cerebral vascular accident (stroke). This definition applies to the allocation of deceased donor kidneys.
What is Expanded Criteria Donor (ECD)?
500
When living cells, tissues or organs are transplanted between species. To be successful in humans, they must overcome issues of transplant rejection, cross-species infection and ethics.
What is xenotransplantation?
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