The Organ Transplantation Recovery Unit

According to United Network for Organ Sharing (2010) organ donations and transplantation are the removal of organs and tissues from one person and placed into another person’s body. The need for organ transplantation usually occurs when the recipient organ has failed (UNOS, 2010). Organ donation can save the lives of many individuals who are on the waiting list for an organ donation. Becoming an organ donor can be a difficult decision. Many people have the false beliefs about being an organ donor. An example would be if organ donor is on their driver’s license and a person is in a life-threatening accident everything will not be done to save their life. There is an increase need for organ donors and unfortunately the need for organ

Given the difficulty surrounding the current organ donation process and the need for more donors, it is important that the system is reformed. One patient’s wishes do not need to compromised for the other’s. However, if doctors were given more leeway to access the situation on an case by case basis, allowed to question dying patients further, and take the needed measures to preserve organs, then more lives could be saved. In many instances, there is simply nothing to be done to save a dying patient, yet there is still hope for someone waiting for a transplant. Therefore, the needs of the potential organ recipient should be given more

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

With people making important decisions about their body every day the subject of organ donation becomes increasingly important. For years, the topic has been the source of many controversial debates regarding its ethical and moral ideations. Organ donation should remain voluntary for several reasons: first and foremost it is still considered a donation. Next, patients and their families should have the right to say no to medical procedures. And, lastly, bodily autonomy should be respected by healthcare professionals. Many argue, however, that organ donation should be mandatory as to decrease not only the time spent on an organ donation list but also the risks of mortality while waiting for a new organ. Families often have the final say in

Throughout time Organ transplanting has been an important medical procedure that has been present, not only in the United States, but around the globe. It is the process of surgically removing an organ from on patient and then transplanting it into the other. This practice is usually used when a recipient’s own organ fails to function properly or has

The medical industry had been achieving more in the stage of medical advancements, though they are still in the early phase. Artificial organs have been one of those achievements. Although they have achieved such, artificial organs are not perfect. Most doctors as well as patients would prefer to replace a dying organ with a compatible human organ, rather than with an artificial or animal organ. Yet due to a there being less organs donated than recipients, artificial and animal organs are becoming more common in transplants. Most of this issue is because people are unaware of how organ donation works, the organs that can be donated, how many people are in need, and the advancements that have happened in the field. Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year, but many lives are recklessly lost due to a shortage of organ donors.

Throughout history, medical advancements and breakthroughs have been increasing exponentially, especially in recent years. These breakthroughs have had a profuse impact on our society as the average life expectancy in the United States has increased from 68 years in 1950 to 79 years in 2017. One of these revolutions in medicine is the process of organ donation. But unlike the majority of these medical innovations, organ donation has become a controversial topic amongst our society. Although organ donation is not a perfect process and may not follow all religious beliefs, it should be supported because it allows for medical advancements to occur throughout the world, follows strict regulations to ensure fairness, and allows for the gift of

“Without the organ donor, there is no story, no hope, and no transplant. But when there is an organ donor, life springs from death, sorrow turns to hope, and a terrible loss becomes a gift.” –UNOS

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

Organ transfer refers to the process of donation, procurement and transplantation of an organ (Sharp, 2001:112). This practice raises ethical issues and dilemmas concerning the recipient but particularly concerning the donor. In a world where organs are more and more viewed as spare parts that can be gifted away or sold, deceased donors are seen as dehumanized objects that can be fragmented for parts and not as persons (Sharp, 2001). Living donation means a risk of exploitation of marginalized populations who may be pressured to give up their organs due to family or financial conditions (Scheper-Hughes, 2007).

The consequences of organ donation and ethical guidelines examined so far, only relate to Auto and Allografts in which the recipients and donors are only human and as such the guiding principles so far mentioned can only be applied to human donation. Yet currently there are investigations being made in another technique, which may bypass some of the ethical and moral concerns of human organ donation. This procedure is Xenotransplantation, although the technique has not yet been refined for common practice many people believe this to be a major improvement from human organ transplantation; but this technique does raise a multitude of issues and concerns from a wide range of people.

The potential benefits of organ donation significantly outweigh proposed reasons for refusing to donate one’s organs. Though the reasons for rejecting organ donation are understandable, the overall effect on the biomass confirms such reasons to be selfish and unethical. Organs for transplantation must be harvested as soon after death as possible, in order to maintain viability. Relatives of the donor often find difficulty in accepting that their loved one’s body, “maintained in a semblance of life by artificial respiration, is in fact dead and will remain dead when the respirator is turned off” (Emson). One’s determination to donate organs is completely voluntary. Practically, that measured decision can be overturned by family members after the death of the individual, resulting in the primary cause of loss of donors (Thomas). “To the bereaved family, an organ is a remaining part of the beloved deceased person. […] To the deceased, it is something that has been a vital component of the person but is no longer needed. [But] To the potential recipient of its donated organs, it is the very new hope for a restored life” (Emson). However, with each selfish refusal of organ donation, fifty Americans are denied the chance

The subject of organ gift is thought to be a honorable deed nowadays. In any case, in the event that we attempt to highlight the historical backdrop of this practice, we may watch it to be exceptionally dubious and subject to various inquiries. There are couple of major issues that are by implication or specifically connected with organ gift that will dishearten you to give an organ even in the wake of passing the terminal stage.

Among these grounds both social and religious issues play an important part, especially in a multicultural and multireligious community some of the problems is a misconception that needs to address. Their perception that the body of the donor would be mistreated. That needs to explain the organ donor would be surgically in a routine operation. The organ donor does not blemish or the body it will look healthy for the funeral

How do you feel when you really want something, but you have to wait for it? Especially if it was the result of either life or death. People all across America are in this situation. They need an organ transplant in order to live but they are put on a waiting list to see if they qualify for an organ which may come in time before they are to sick, or it may not come in time which ends in death. Some of the points we will discuss is what is an organ transplant, how can we determine the value of a human life, and reasons why certain individuals that we chose deserve an organ transplant the most and which individuals don’t. With this in mind, what exactly is an organ transplant?