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1 Organ Donation Sabrina Hojnoski PHI-105 Instructor: Lance Perry March 17 ,2024

2 Organ Donation Donating organs is crucial to keeping family and friends alive. Discover the truth about organ donation and how it is a powerful gift. Donating organs can save many people. As I am an organ donor myself. Organ donation can save up to eight lives even more depending on skin and tissue donations as well. Many people wait weeks, months, or even years for an organ match because if you are on the Unos (United Network for Organ Sharing) list the person who is higher on the list and based on their medical condition will receive the organ. Organ transplant procedure. As high-intensity procedures, transplants demand huge allocations of resources, both financial and technological. Given that many transplants are matters of life and death, the moral, ethical, and emotional overlays are significant. The science of transplantation is frequently shifting, often dramatically. (Amerongen, 1998). Tests are run to make sure the organ's tissue, blood type, and size are a match for the recipient. And transplants are the only option when you are in end-stage organ failure. Organs have a time frame of 60 minutes to be viable except the heart and lungs have to be transplanted in 4-6 hours as where other organs are viable for 6-18 hours. Skin, tendons, heart valves and corneas are still alie after a day. After a person is declared dead and life support stops you have 2-5 minutes to start the organ retrieval. Gaining family consent to donate the organs from a recently deceased family member is a crucial and emotional process, as time can play into factor in who needs the organ. The recipient's medical condition is well enough to undergo the transplant and the time it takes to harvest the organ. There is a considerable amount of details that go into factor with donating organs and receiving them. You have to be evaluated to determine if you are a good transplant candidate, some factors are how long you have been on the waiting list and your medical

3 condition. You cannot get a transplant if you have an infection, serious heart disease or not healthy enough to survive an operations. Infant transplant some organs such as the intestines have to come from another infant. How to become a live donor. The process is complex and stressful for the family and the potential donor. What live donors go through to help a loved one and the risk they may face when donating a kidney or a lobe of their liver. One thing about liver donation is the liver regenerates. For example, live donors are being pressured into donating an organ to help someone else if they are not a match for their loved one (Simpson, 2023). Some risks a live donor can face are immediate surgery-related such as pain, infection, hernia, bleeding, blood clots, wound complications, and in rare cases death. You can do what Is called the domino effect for example if a loved one needs an organ and the family is not a match for them but is a match for another recipient and someone in that recipient's family is a match for the other family recipient they can Donate the organ with their consent if they were willing to donate in the first place. So both recipients would receive the organs being donated. You must be at least 18 or older to become an organ donor. Have good physical and mental health status. Know the risks and benefits when donating. Being a live donor is a selfless act to help improve the quality of one's life. Life after receiving an organ. Understanding acute rejection of organ transplants, and for convenience, I have identified three processes, recognition, rejection, and regulation (Bradley, 2005). Organs can be rejected when your body’s immune system treats the new organ like a foreign object and attacks it and drugs are given to help this not happen and they are called

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4 immunosuppressive drugs. Some signs of organ rejection are fatigue, fever, shortness of breath, decreased peak flow, decreased oxygen saturation, pain, and swelling of the surgical area. All the immunosuppressive drugs required to be taken after having a transplant for the rest of your life. And the side effects that you may have after taking all the medication required. Such as excessive hair growth or loss, high blood pressure, mood swings, and diabetes. It takes time to adjust to the transplant. It is different for each person and depends on the organ that was received. And in some circumstances, you can be weaned off the immunosuppressive drugs. You have to make sure you have proper care and support after your transplant. The quality of life will change after receiving a transplant and all the responsibility that is required is to make sure you take the medication prescribed to make sure the organ transplant is not rejected. One of the organs that typically does not get rejected in the cornea as it has no blood supply. Conclusion There are many reasons to consider why organ donation is important and how many lives it can save and change. So, if you want to help with the shortage of organ donors you can sign up to be a donor. When your life has ended, you can still help save many lives after you are gone. Becoming an organ donor before your life ends will make sure your family does not have to make that hard decision right after losing you. Please consider today or soon to become an Organ Donor if you are not already one to increase the shortage. Give the gift of life to people around the world to have a chance to experience a good quality of life.

5 References Amerongen, D. van. (1998, November 1). A guide for approaching controversial, high tech procedures. (Managing Organ Transplant Issues). Physician Executive , 24 (6). Bradley, B. A. (2005). Prognostic assays for rejection and tolerance in organ transplantation. Transplant Immunology , 14 (3–4), 193–201. https://doi- org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.trim.2005.03.022 Simpson, C. (2023). Vulnerability, Autonomy, and the Living Organ Donor. The Hastings Center Report , 53 (1). https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/hast.1459

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