Pros And Cons Of Organ Donation And Transplants

A continuing problem exists in trying to close the gap between the supply and demand of procured organs in the United States. An increase in the amount of transplant operations performed has risen significantly over time. As a result, a new name is added to the national waiting list every 16 minutes (Duan, Gibbons, & Meltzer, 2000). It is estimated that about 100,000 individuals are on the national transplant waiting list at all times (Munson, 2012). Something needs to be done before these numbers get completely out of control. Despite the introduction of Gift of Life and many other educational efforts, the United

Today we are in great need of a solution to solve the problem of the shortage of human organs available for transplant. The website for Donate Life America estimates that in the United States over 100 people per day are added to the current list of over 100,000 men, women, and children that are waiting for life-saving transplants. Sadly enough, approximately 18 people a day on that list die just because they cannot outlive the wait for the organ that they so desperately need to survive. James Burdick, director of the Division of Transplantation for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services confirms, “The need for organ transplants continues to grow and this demand continues to outpace the supply of transplantable organs”. The

My grandfather was a lucky one, though he had to wait 5 years until his luck was fully granted. He was diagnosed with sever kidney failure, spent 5 years on dialysis, then was blessed with the option of getting a kidney… twice. Though the first time he had to reject because of the health of his wife-after her death, he was called once more with the option of having a kidney transplant. However, my grandfather is an exception, most people do not get called once, let alone twice, for the option of receiving a kidney. As of October 25th 2013, about 100,000 people were waiting for a new kidney in the United States. (SCU) Every day, 18 people from that list die along with 10 others being added. As of October 25th, 2013, out of the 100,000 people waiting for a new kidney while only about 10,000 received one; that means 90,000 people are either rolled over to the next year, or die waiting. The marvelousness of kidney donations, compared to other organs donations, is that each person is born with two and can sustain a healthy life with just one; simple facts such as this is what has driven the black market kidney trade to flourish. (CBSNEWS) However, if this is the case then why aren’t more people donating? Is it because they are not getting something in return? Why donate for free when someone on the black market will pay 10,000 dollars? The main arguments against black market organ donations, not limited to kidneys, is that people do not know the risks- yet if someone is

At the age of 18 I think that everyone should be offered the chance to become an organ donor instead of at 16 being asked for their drivers license. People should not be forced to allow doctors to harvest their organs from their deceased bodies, but if they are okay with that they can go ahead. To be blunt, I think the world is overpopulated and the Darwanian evolution theories phrase, “Survival of the Fittest” deffinetly applies to this topic. Advances in human science are fantastic and I think that if we can help someone we should, but if someone is not comfortable with sharing their organs because of either religous of personal views they should not be forced to.

The introduction of organ donation to society has since been a groundbreaking medical discovery and life-saving procedure, portrayed in myths dating back to Ancient times, before the 16th century. Early performed procedures we’re primarily successful skin grafts and transplants among individuals in need. It wasn’t until the early 1900’s that doctors had been documented performing experimental and risky transplants from animal organs to save human patients suffering from renal failure. Though successful, none of these patients lived more than a few days after the transplants. It wasn’t until December 23, 1954, that the first truly successful kidney transplant, from a living donor, was achieved. Dr. Joseph

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is a public and private organization that was created in 1984. The organization was created by the National Organ Transplant Act. The network joins all professionals that support and who are involved in the organ donation and transplantation system throughout the United States. The institution also connects people that have signed donor cards and who also support the system of organ donation and transplantation. The main goal of the OPTN is to raise the number of organ transplants and to improve the access to organ transplants as well. The organization also thrives to create higher survival rates for after a transplantation and to ensure patient safety. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network has supported over 30,000 organ transplant surgeries, those of which have saved thousands of lives. The OPTN has contributed to the success of organ transplantation for many years and it continues to do

Xenotransplantation: a subject about which people hold strong contrasting views. Rare attempts have been made to transplant animal organs or tissues into human beings since the early years of this century. Curiosity surrounding the procedure known as Xenotransplantation has increased in the last few years because it is seen as one way of reducing the shortage of human organs for transplantation. Currently, this shortage strictly edges the potential of transplantation for treating human diseases. The worldwide requirement for organs is growing significantly. For example, in 2004, the United Network of organ sharing found that over 100,000 patients could have had an advantage from organ transplant, but only 29,000 were available. In 1963 Doctor Keith Reemtsma a surgeon who experimented with organ transplants. Thirteen chimpanzee’s kidneys were transferred into humans. Twelve patients survived for 60 days. One patient survived for nine months, so this option was considered a viable one.

D. Thesis - Organ donation and Transplants are the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. They give hope to

Cloning has been a hot topic for many in the medical field and regular people. One of the new ideas for cloning is organ. Organ cloning is a process many doctors and scientists are interested in. Organ cloning is a process that can many benefits for humans. The possibility of using that organ cloning can become enormous. The one thing it could make it is easier for people whose need transplants to get one. It could also make the chance that the body will reject the organ to zero. While the idea of organ cloning is a great and interest idea there still some ways to go before we can actually do it. The one chance for the success of organ cloning is therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning is a process in which DNA is extracted from the people

A person’s consent to donate their organs is made while still living and appears on a driver’s license or in an advance directive. “JD’s driver’s license has a little heart and “organ donor” stamped on the front.” Which means that he picked to be an organ donor while he was alert. His parents are attentive and religious I think the driverless license should have been enough. The DMV make sure that you are aware that you checked to be a donor. However, thy could verify it because he didn’t register or there was no signature. The hospital should have done what was right and make him an organ donor. They had the proof. It would have cause confrontation with the family because they disagree and wanted him to no longer suffer. He didn’t register

They bring the donor to an operation room and they carefully make incisions as they would if the patient we still alive. they recover any tissues and organs that are still healthy and able to be used in transplants, such bone, cornea, and skin. ("US Department of Health and Human Resources" ) When a transplant is successful in surgery, things aren’t perfect yet. Sometimes the body detects that a thing isn’t right and can attack the new organ. "Dr. Carrel and other scientists reasoned that the animals were dying after surgery because their bodies rejected any transplanted organ as foreign tissue. Their reasoning was based on past research. Doctors had already successfully grafted skin from one part of a patient's own body to another. However,

Tayt Andersen is an 8 year old boy from Rigby, Idaho, but he isn’t like all the other little kids in Rigby. Tayt was born without the left side of his heart. And, at just seven years old, he has had nine open-heart surgeries, twenty-four shunt revision surgeries, and three other life-saving surgeries. He has been Life Flighted ten times, flat-lined six times, and has spent more than three-fourths of his life in hospital beds at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Embree)

Organ transplants have saved the lives of many patients, and have brought nothing but happiness to donors and their families. However, there is a constant conflict between the Human Immune system and foreign cells. The Reason this is such a big issue is due to the fact that newly transplanted organs can be detected, and then attacked by immune cells. This in turn, renders the organ and operation useless; putting the patient in further danger and can even worsen their condition than before.

The patient died nine days later. Another experiment conducted in 1984 attempted to use a baboon’s heart to save a newborn baby; the baby only lived for twenty days. The longest time a patient has lived with an animal organ is nine months, where the recipient received a chimpanzee kidney. The early failures of xenotransplantation, however, led many to believe that animal organs are too different from human organs. The recipient’s immune system recognizes the foreign organ and rejects it in spite of immunosuppressive drugs. Powerful immunosuppressive drugs are given to any patient receiving an organ, human or animal, in order to suppress the body’s reaction to the foreign organ. Without the immunosuppressive drugs, the body will reject the organ within a few hours after surgery (Natural Life 23).

It is a well-known fact that anyone can choose to be an organ donor when applying for a driving license or just by signing the back of the license. It is also known that there are thousands of individuals across the country waiting for a lifesaving transplant at any given moment. However, most people are not very familiar with the organizations that take care of the transplants or with the process of transplantation itself. LifeGift is an organ procurement organization in Texas that not only takes care of organ and tissue transplants, but also offers emotional support to the donors’ families. Partnering with more than two hundred hospitals, LifeGift saved 1,310 lives in 2016. Thanks to them, 92 people on average receive a lifesaving organ transplant every day. Among transplantable organs, most commonly transplanted are kidneys and liver. On their website, LifeGift gives detailed explanation of the organ donation and transplantation process as well as presents personal stories of donors, their families or recipients.