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Organ donation

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er... one organ for one person. there is 38 organs in a human body, so you could save up to 38 people! :)
 
The following (whole) organs can be procured from a donor:
  • Heart
  • Intestines
  • Kidneys
  • Liver
  • Lung
  • Pancreas

Of these, all but possibly the pancreas are vital organs necessary for a human being to survive. In theory, one organ donor can save the lives (situation giving) of up to 6 different people.

Don't forget the tissue donations, too. Those these may not be essential organs needed to save someones life, they can certainly improve the lives of many people. Such tissues donated are bones, tendons, corneas, heart valves, femoral veins, great saphenous veins, small saphenous veins, pericardium, skin grafts, and the sclera.
 
As I understand it, the blood of a deceased human body cannot be used for transfusions for a number of public health reasons. The blood is no longer any good.
 
^ is that true? i never heard about it but that sounds plausible - interesting question!
 
Yeah, I don't think they ever use the blood. But the organs listed are correct... however, you can't really live without a pancreas either... and since you have two kidneys and two lungs and you only technically need one of each... I could say that means you could save 8. I'm not 100% sure that's accurate. And as stated, the tissue donation is important too. But only a select few can be organ donors... it's very complicated.
 
do you know why they don't use the blood? does it start to coagulate immediately after death?
 
From that article

A few strict rules must be followed in using cadaver blood. It must be drawn within six hours after death from a subject with no known infectious disease, and a complete autopsy must be done. When these conditions are met, say the Pontiac doctors in Clinical Pathology, "we know it can do no harm and that it offers tremendous potential good."
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also the history part is very interesting - thanks a lot for posting this
 
hmm... kind of interesting to read a story about dr kevorkian saving lives instead of helping people end them. (not that i have anything against assisted suicide, but that's a topic for another thread.)
 
I'm a paramedic and used to transport transplant teams all the time. Once the decision is made to allow for donation things happen pretty quickly. The hospital I used to work for would contact the donor services center. They would send a nurse out to do a preliminary investigation and get an EXTENSIVE medical history. They would run lab and take xrays. If the patient was a suitable donor they would send the transplant crews. Usually liver and kidney teams were first. The liver can be "split" into 2 donations so actually 2 people's lives could be saved. Many people live with only 1 kidney so 2 more people can survive. The heart and lung teams were the last ones to arrive. Again there are many people that have only 1 lung so potentially they could split the donated lungs and two people could survive, each getting 1 lung. Once the major organs were gone the cadaver teams would come. They would take corneas, skin, bone, tendon's and ligaments.
It wasn't very often a team would take the pancreas.

I sometimes would wonder what was left to put into the casket.

I am an organ donor and encourage EVERYONE to please join me. It is not enough for you to list it on your drivers license. Your "next of kin" has to sign the paper giving permission. If they refuse, thats it. The donation will not happen. You have to make it very clear to your loved one's that this is what you want if God forbid something should happen. Remind them that something wonderful can come out of tragedy. I have talked to several families that have made the decision to allow donation. All of them said that they miss their family member and want them back more than anything in the world; however, knowing that their family member saved so many lives gives them great comfort.
 
I was surprised to find out that the driver's license signature wasn't enough. I haven't done so yet, but I guess I should as something could happen to me any day now.
 
I'm actually wondering if I can donate one of my kidneys right now to help someone else but I am someone who forms kidney stones so I wonder if they will take it.
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Yes, you can donate currently. Personally, I wouldn't unless I knew the person. I might need that second kidney at some point. AS to the stones, it's probably fine but you'd have to check. It depends on if they know why you are forming stones... generally it is not b/c of the kidneys themselves. However, the stones may damage the kidney so it's hard to say in a general statement.
 
I believe that when it comes to heart and lung donations, It is common to transplant the entire assembly- both lungs and the heart. That drastically reduces the ammount of microsurgery and whatnot, So essentially its like taking out the old and plugging in a new set that you only need to connect to the aorta and vena cava, rather than messing with all the pulmonary arteries and veins and whatnot.
 
TheMaskedOtaku said:
You'd think with all the people in need they wouldn't be so strict. I'm actually wondering if I can donate one of my kidneys right now to help someone else but I am someone who forms kidney stones so I wonder if they will take it. If they don't I'm gonna say "So you'd rather them die than have the possibility of forming a few stones now and then... have you asked them yourself on this?"
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I was surprised to hear how limited your recovery from things like drinking with just one kidney. You really lose a lot by losing a kidney. I guess that makes the donation of one quite a valuable one.

I imagine cadaver blood risks having coagulated before it can be drawn, which is part of the main reason why it's not used (along with still needing to be tested and the cause of death ascertained to determine if the blood is useful or not).
 
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