Transplantation In Canada

Organ transplantation is a term that most people are familiar with. When a person develops the need for a new organ either due to an accident or disease, they receive a transplant, right? No, that 's not always right. When a person needs a new organ, they usually face a long term struggle that they may never see the end of, at least while they are alive. The demand for transplant organs is a challenging problem that many people are working to solve. Countries all over the world face the organ shortage epidemic, and they all have different laws regarding what can be done to solve it. However, no country has been able to create a successful plan without causing moral and ethical dilemmas.

But only 221 of those phone calls went on to be organ donors and of those they had only 900 transplant. Unfortunately, there is a growing shortage of donated organs which resulted for Canada to spent 200 million importing organs from other countries. In my perspective, the reason why there are lots of people opting to be donor is not knowing what it actually means, there is not enough available materials to educate the public, regardless of the effort to increase awareness regarding this matter. It is relevant to the practice of nursing, as nurses has the opportunity to have the most interaction with the patients and their families. Given that aspect, if it does not violate any standards or scope of practice of a nurse, health teaching and education should be done to patients and families who have high risk of imminent death or a potential donor. If they would be educated regarding organ and tissue donation a significant number of patient who die on waiting list could be substantially reduced, there would be a lot more organs available for the ones need. Since, each person has more than one organ it can saves 8 lives according to

All aspects of health care face the inevitability of moral and ethical issues arising on numerous fronts. The organ donation and transplantation field of medicine is no exception. Each day, approximately 18 people die waiting for an organ to become available for transplant (Taranto, 2010). In the grand scheme of things this may not seem a significant number; however, the fact that over 6,500 individuals with families, friends, and an otherwise productive life will die needlessly every year is obviously a far cry from acceptable. This particular lack

Despite these results, less than 20% of Canadians have actually made arrangements to donate their organs and tissues. According to Gill & Cole, Canada is often mentioned as having one of the worst donation percentages in the developed world (2008). This needs to change in a big way and one major step in the right direction is holding a registration drive. The aim of an organ donation registration drive is to spread awareness about the importance of registering consent for organ and tissue donation. Unlike the United States, Canada does not have a national registry for those in need of organs or for those willing to donate. Instead, transplant services are divided into provincial organizations. Each province has it own organ donation and transplant system (ODTS) and organ procurement organization (OPO) (Gill & Cole & Shemie,

Organ donation has the power to change a life ending incident into a life giving one. Throughout the United States many patients are suffering due to the lack of a vital organ, because there is more demand than supply of organs, many patients die without ever receiving one. Although organ donation saves many lives, there have been questions in regards to ethics that surround it. People are even making the argument that it should not be practiced. Another question that has surfaced is, how can organ donation be improved in the United States so that people in need of organs can receive them at a high rate? Even though organ donation in the United States has received criticism due to ethical dilemmas such as priority distribution, contributing to illegal harvesting and alternative sources; the possibilities of saving lives and giving people a second chance outweighs the potential consequences it holds. Organ donation is one of the most important modern day medical marble that needs to be better utilized United States.

The allocation of scarce resources is an ongoing issue in healthcare today. The scarcity of many specific interventions include beds in the intensive care unit, donor organs, and vaccines during a pandemic influenza are widely acknowledged as an extensive issue in healthcare ethics. The allocation of scarce resources is the determination of how to equally and fairly use scarce medical resources available in a healthcare environment. This paper will focus on donor organs for transplantation and the ethical dilemmas associated with donation/transplantation. Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation in today’s world (Saidi, R., & Kenan, S., 2014). Ethical principles and regulation requirements often overlap.

Due to fewer deaths caused by car crashes and gunshots, Canada lacks in its number of organ donors. Hoping for development in the xenotransplantation is our only hope at this point. Although Canada is encouraged to participate in further research regarding the xenotransplantation, alternatives to this must also be looked into. The alternatives vary from further stem cell research, and ways to increase to organ donors.

With the evolution of time variety of advanced and useful medical procedures to save lives have been discovered, one of which being organ donations. Now days patients suffering from serious and life threatening conditions have the option of getting their organs replaced; a second chance at life. It should be mandatory that all people, once they have died be organ and tissue donors because after death they no longer need or use their organs. Secondly, by simply donating you could save numerous lives and lastly, there are critical organ shortages within Canada which could be resolved if there were more donors available

In October of 2011, Helene Campbell was told of the news that would change her life forever: she had a fatal lung disease known as advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. For months, the disease had unknowingly been slowly taking her breath away, and would continue to do so until she underwent her successful operation the following April. Immediately, doctors gave her the option to be put on a list for a double lung transplant so she could live to be twenty-five years old. Although her story is one of the more fortunate ones, this is not always the case for the millions of men, women and children that have been affected by this heedless epidemic. The reality is, Canada is one of the worst countries in regards to organ donation among the other Western World countries; nearly two thousand Canadians register for a new organ each year, but only half of the men, women and children on the recipient list may get one in the next twelve months. Our current system in Canada is adequate, but it is not great nor is it efficient; millions of our own people to suffer, and many suffer until their death, without a second chance at the life that they rightly deserve.

I will be reviewing “Emerging Perspectives in Transplantation: Organ Donation Among Health Care Providers: Is Giving and Receiving Similar”, which analyzes the connection between the attitudes of health care providers toward receiving and donating an organ and how this varies among the different health care practitioners. Health care providers regularly encourage organ donation because they know the benefits that can derive from doing so. However, they also know the complications that can come from donating and receiving and organ such as future lifelong health problems, and a decreased life span. This article is very intriguing because it really makes me wonder about how people working in the medical field feel about organ transplantation

Every time we hear the two words 'organ donation', we immediately let it slip our mind- as we simply don’t think it’s important enough. As this comes into play for many topics, we never truly recognise what others are put through on a daily basis. With 1,700 individuals on the Australian waiting list, we believe this number is very minor and can be benefitted easily. Truth is, while the numbers rise, many will have an unfortunate death having to wait up to 4 years or more at a time waiting for suitable organ transplantation. The current ‘Opt-In’ Organ Donation system in Australia is simply not providing enough donors. We feel unpleasant emotion related to the threat of danger and pain deriving from these words ‘organ donation’, as, to put

First of all, it is important to understand the history of organ donation. It is not only important to know the history, but to examine the differences between donation in the past and what it is like today. Although many forms of study are always improving, Medicine is one that is constantly and drastically changing. Throughout the past century, all practices of healthcare have changed almost completely. Through technology and brilliant minds, medicine has boomed in opportunities. When a sick individual would be sent home to die almost twenty years ago, there are now endless treatments and possibilities today. Along with the boom of

Organ donations have encountered organ donor and organ supply rejections. Organ donation challenges and demands increase as the organ shortages increase over the years. Organ donation’s mission is to save many terminally ill recipients at the end stages of their lives. The significance of the organ donation is to give back to restore one’s quality of life. The ongoing issues may present an idealistic portrait of how these issues may be resolved. As a result, the mission of organ donations are to restore organs for their patients and to promote, education, empower altruism and quality ethics as a resource for existing and potential donors Organ donations has been perceived by potential organ donors to be inhumane activity, a dishonor to the humanized process, circulation of illegal revenue, and conceptual grounds needs to be consistent with altruism as the empowered outcome.

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

The process of receiving an organ is lengthy and traumatic to any individual. This makes the process of transporting the organ even more precious. The surroundings of this causes pressure to be put on medical professionals which can be deafening. However, some of the medical professionals may feel and act unethically by lacking in moral principles and humane standards. “Subjected to intense scrutiny by the federal government, the public, and the medical profession, no other aspect of modern medicine is more analyzed and debated. Such scrutiny is essential. Organ transplantation is built upon altruism and public trust.” (Noël) All individuals should be treated equally including the choice in not being a donor. Medical professionals and all staff involved in the organ transplantation should be unbiased and work to their fullest potential to help the patient. It is their responsibility to treat the patient with respect and have in mind equal ethics in all their medical decisions. Arthur Schafer, a philosophy professor and director of the University of Manitoba's Center for Professional and Applied Ethics stated, “But, doctors shouldn't dole out medical services based on a value judgment of a patient's virtues and vices. Doctors aren't priests, ministers, rabbis and they're not moral judges.” Furthermore, doctors and other medical professionals do not have the authority to decline any individual inside the rules of moral conduct.