States, Not Just Legal Citizens, Should Automatically Be Considered Organ Donors Unless Otherwise Specified Rough Draft UFID: 9169-9185 June 6, 2015 I. Background According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a donated organ into a patient with end-stage organ failure (U.S Dept of health and human services website). End-stage organ failure can be attributed to a number of diseases. Diseases such
Title: The Ethical Issues Surrounding Organ Transplantation Abstract With organ transplants so prevalent in today’s society, it is important that the ethical issues surrounding them are fully understood. While many people want to see life extended as long as possible, there are others who believe life must be allowed to run its natural course. This literature review examines the process of organ transplantation from continuous shortages of available organs to the distribution process to the
Piechowiak 2nd Period 8th Grade Accelerated Language Arts December 14th, 2015 Organ Transplants Organ transplantation is the removal of a healthy organ from one person and placing it into another whose organ has failed, or is injured. It is known to be life saving 80 percent of the time, but it is a major surgery that carries many me potential risks and complications- the biggest one being organ rejection. (WebMD) Organ transplants have quite some history. The first successful kidney transplant was
Danica Smith Final Paper Outline Organ Transplantation Due to the increase in medical technology over the years, medical advancements, such as organ transplants, have grown in commonality. This has increased the number of patient who needs such care. The problem with organ transplants arises from the debate on the ethical way to distribute organs and how to combat the issue of a lack of organ donors. An ethical approach to solving these issues is to develop a system of equal access that relies on
Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) transplant waiting lists die, as the number of allografts that become available do not meet the demand. An allograft is tissue that is surgically transplanted from one person to another. As organ transplant patients wait for donor organs, they risk further clinical deterioration, which can render them no longer suitable for transplantation. Some patients wait months or years for an organ, depending on what blood type, body size, geographic location, and organ needed.
Transformation of Organ Donation in China Lei Zhang, Li Zeng, Xinpu Gao, Haibo Wang and Youhua Zhu 1 Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China 2 Shanghai Organ Donation Office, Shanghai, China 3 China Organ Donation Management Center, Red Cross Society of China, Beijing, China 4 The China Organ Transplant Response System Research Center, Shenzhen, China 5 The Committee of Experts of China Organ Donation, China 4 March 2015 Volume 28, Issue 4 Submitted by Ruben Serrato March 20, 2017 Period 1
global counterparts. This is the area of organ donation and transplantation. As of August 2013, the total number of people on the waitlist for organs in the United States was around 120,000 according to the United Network of Organ Sharing. Comparatively, the number of organ transplants performed in the United States was only 11,580 according to the United Network of Organ Sharing. Therefore, there is a prominent difference between supply and demand of organs in the United States. Many consider the
Legalization of Organ Compensation Annotated Bibliography Gul-Awez Amjad University of Ontario Institute of Technology Information Literacy and Written Communications in Health Sciences HLSC1701 Dr. Kerry Johnson October 6th, 2017 Legalization of Organ Compensation Annotated Bibliography Organ transplantation has been a very successful method of treatment for patients diagnosed with an illness resulting in the failure of an organ including a kidney or the heart. Procedures like organ transplantation give
to save the world, [he] would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution” (Einstein). In the case of the commercialization of organ transplantation, would the ramifications laid by Einstein change if a doctor had only one hour to save the life of a patient in dire need of an organ transplant? An individual that had spent the last three years on a waiting-list? Waiting, years, months, and days without end for a second chance at life. Similar to Einstein
universal. Every day eighteen people will die in the United States of America waiting for an organ transplant. Organ Transplantation involves the giving of a healthy body part from either a living or dead individual to another person. (Fundukian, Organ, p674-678) Medical illnesses do not discriminate. It doesn’t matter about wealth, race, religion, or even age. The types of illnesses causing and leading to organ failure are heart disease, cirrhosis, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, hepatitis, kidney disease