Name the Organ!
All About SODA
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100

Pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through your body every single day

Heart

100

What does SODA stand for?

Student Organ Donation Advocates

100

What does NEDS stand for?

New England Donor Services

100

One organ donor can save this many lives

8

100

This person received a life-saving kidney transplant from her close friend and actress Francia Raisa

Selena Gomez

200

A pair that filters roughly 200 quarts of blood a day to make urine

Kidneys 

200

SODA was founded in this year, at Washington University in St. Louis

2014

200

What does OPO stand for?

Organ Procurement Organization

200

About this many people die each day in the U.S. waiting for a transplant (within 2)

12

200

This type of transplant involves one donor's organ enabling a chain of transplants

A domino transplant

300

A living donor can give away part of this, and it will regrow to nearly full size in about 4 months.

Liver

300

SODA now has more than this many chapters on high school, college, and grad school campuses nationwide (within 20). 

150

300

What does UNOS stand for?

United Network for Organ Sharing

300

Every this many minutes, another person is added to the national transplant waiting list (within 2 min)

7 minutes 

300

This is the average time a donated heart stays viable for transplant outside the body (2-hour range)

4-6 hours 

400

More than 85,000 of these were transplanted recently to restore sight

Cornea

400

SODA has educated more than this many students about organ, eye, and tissue donation (within 20,000).

411,000 students

400

What does DBD stand for?

Donation after Brain Death.

400

More than this many people are currently waiting for a transplant in the U.S. (within 5,000)

103,000 people

400

Scientists have experimented with transplanting organs from this animal into humans because of similarities in organ size and function

Pigs

500

This tissue makes up about 60% of your body weight, can be donated after death

Skin

500

This many students have registered as organ, eye, and tissue donors through SODA's work (within 2,000).

20,428 students

500

What does OPTN stand for?


Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

500

More than this many organ transplants were performed in the U.S. in 2025 (within 2,000)

About 49,000 transplants

500

This medical term comes from the Greek words meaning “another” and “species” and describes a transplant between two different species.

Xenotransplantation