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True or False?
The rich and famous wait their turn for organs just like everyone else.
True - they don't get any special treatment on the waiting list.
This is the cost to donate organs.
What is $0/nothing?
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 is the most commonly transplanted organ.
What is the kidney?
True or False?
People receive the same life savings care regardless of their donor status.
True.
This organ can be split and transplanted to two patients.
What is the liver?
One organ donor can save up to this many lives.
8, 13, or 53 lives?
What is eight lives?
...by donating your heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, kidneys; and one donor can improve many more lives by donating corneas, tissues, heart valves, blood vessels, skin, or bone.
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?
This is the percent of Americans who have joined the donor registry.
48%, 60%, or 68%?
What is 60%?
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.
21, 39, 50, or 70 people?
What is 50 people?
You can donate and receive organs in this country even if you don’t live there and are not 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?
This type of organ or tissue 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.
This is the number of people each year that get a transplant.
13k, 18k, 25k, or 28k?
What is 28,000?
This is the month minority organ donor awareness is highlighted.
What is August?
Robert Chelsea first African American facial transplant.
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 team of medical professionals responsible for performing the transplant surgery and providing post-operative care to the recipient.
What is (the role of) the transplant team?
This organ is most commonly transplanted with the kidney.
What is pancreas?
Another name is added to the organ transplant list every ___ minutes.
6, 8, 13, 24, or 30?
What is 10 minutes?
This is how many people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant.
85k+, 100k+, 113k+, 133k+, or 158k+?
What is 113,000+?
More than 113k people are waiting for a life savings transplant.
Most of these 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?
These are the ones who benefit from an organ donation.
Who is the organ recipient and/or their family and/or the family of the donor?