Organ Donation

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309464871

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Opportunities for Organ Donor Intervention Research by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research Pdf

The organ donation and transplantation system strives to honor the gift of donated organs by fully using those organs to save and improve the quality of the lives of their recipients. However, there are not enough donated organs to meet the demand and some donated organs may not be recovered, some recovered organs may not be transplanted, and some transplanted organs may not function adequately. Organ donor intervention research can test and assess interventions (e.g., medications, devices, and donor management protocols) to maintain or improve organ quality prior to, during, and following transplantation. The intervention is administered either while the organ is still in the deceased donor or after it is recovered from the donor but before it is transplanted into a recipient. Organ donor intervention research presents new challenges to the organ donation and transplantation community because of ethical questions about who should be considered a human subject in a research study, whose permission and oversight are needed, and how to ensure that such research does not threaten the equitable distribution of a scarce and valuable resource. Opportunities for Organ Donor Intervention Research focuses on the ethical, legal, regulatory, policy, and organizational issues relevant to the conduct of research in the United States involving deceased organ donors. This report provides recommendations for how to conduct organ donor intervention research in a manner that maintains high ethical standards, that ensures dignity and respect for deceased organ donors and their families, that provides transparency and information for transplant candidates who might receive a research organ, and that supports and sustains the public's trust in the process of organ donation and transplantation.

Author : Jason T. Siegel,Eusebio M. Alvaro
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1405192135

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Understanding Organ Donation by Jason T. Siegel,Eusebio M. Alvaro Pdf

This highly important book introduces the realm of organ donation, providing an overview of the current situation, highlighting the challenges, summarizing past research, and providing guidance for future research. The first book to bridge the gap between applied research and the social and behavioral issues surrounding organ donation An impressive collection of contributors from a range of both practitioners and scientists actively working in the field Provides a concrete example of how evidence-based research and theory can be applied with real-world value Explores future directions of organ donation and research including community-based health interventions, ethical considerations, and advancing donor registration The latest publication in the prestigious Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series

Author : Tina P. Schwartz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
ISBN : 9780810849242

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Organ Transplants by Tina P. Schwartz Pdf

Talks to teens and offers practical advice and suggestions for coping with and surviving the situation of when a family member has an organ transplant, or when they are personally facing an organ transplant. It covers how to deal with events that happen before, during, and after the surgery.

Author : Katrina A. Bramstedt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442211179

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The Organ Donor Experience by Katrina A. Bramstedt Pdf

With a current US need of over 115,000 organs one would think that Good Samaritan donors would be welcomed with open arms by transplant centers and society in general; however, this is often not the case. Tell someone that you have donated an organ to a stranger and the reaction is likely to be one of astonishment and disbelief. Some doctors even consider people who offer their organs to strangers crazy. Why would anyone do that? Who are these people so committed to helping others-strangers-that they would undergo surgery, discomfort, and disruption of their lives? This book profiles donors who have offered their organs to strangers and helps readers understand the meanings behind their donations. For the donor, altruism should always be the primary motivation, though other motivations often come into play. Often, there are also subconscious reasons for performing this great act of kindness. The Organ Donor Experience gives living anonymous organ donors of kidneys, liver lobes, and lung lobes the opportunity to tell their stories as they understand them, and for others to understand the motivations and the meaning of true altruism.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309164641

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Organ Donation by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation Pdf

Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, or intestine). Organ Donation examines a wide range of proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that presume consent for donation as well as the use of financial incentives such as direct payments, coverage of funeral expenses, and charitable contributions. This book urges federal agencies, nonprofit groups, and others to boost opportunities for people to record their decisions to donate, strengthen efforts to educate the public about the benefits of organ donation, and continue to improve donation systems. Organ Donation also supports initiatives to increase donations from people whose deaths are the result of irreversible cardiac failure. This book emphasizes that all members of society have a stake in an adequate supply of organs for patients in need, because each individual is a potential recipient as well as a potential donor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Donation of organs, tissues, etc
ISBN : UCR:31210011014634

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Questions & Answers about Organ Donation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Krista L. Lentine,Beatrice P. Concepcion,Edgar V. Lerma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3030536203

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Living Kidney Donation by Krista L. Lentine,Beatrice P. Concepcion,Edgar V. Lerma Pdf

This book provides a complete guide to the evaluation, care, and follow-up of living kidney donors. Living donor kidney transplantation is established as the best treatment option for kidney failure. However, despite the tremendous benefits of living donation to recipients and society, the outcomes and optimal care of donors themselves have received relatively less attention. Fortunately, things are changing – including recent landmark developments in living donor risk assessment, policy and guidance. This volume offers authoritative, evidence-based guidance on the full range of clinical scenarios encountered in the evaluation and care of living kidney donors. The approach to key elements of risk assessment, ethical considerations and informed consent is accompanied by recommendations for patient-centered care before, during, and after donation. Advocacy initiatives and policies to remove disincentives to donation and advance a defensible system of practice are also discussed. General and transplant nephrologists, as well as related allied health professionals, can look to this book as a comprehensive resource addressing contemporary clinical topics in the practice of living kidney donation.

Author : Margaret Haerens
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737762693

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Organ Donation by Margaret Haerens Pdf

This global-perspective guidebook explores issues related to organ donation in various countries, including the United States, Spain, Australia, India, and Pakistan. Readers will learn about poverty and organ donation, illegal trafficking of organs, and compensation for donation. This book also examines the presumed consent of opt-in / opt-out laws. Essay sources include The Portugal News, Ami Cholia, Calev Ben-David, Habib Toumi, and Natsuko Fukue.

Author : Lesley A. Sharp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520247864

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Strange Harvest by Lesley A. Sharp Pdf

Illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This ethnographic study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309172776

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Organ Procurement and Transplantation by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy Pdf

Each day, nearly 60 Americans receive a transplanted kidney, liver, or other organâ€"a literal "second chance at life"â€"but 11 others die waiting for an organ transplant. The number of donors, although rising, is not growing fast enough to meet the increasing demand. Intended to improve the current system of organ procurement and allocation, the "Final Rule," a 1998 regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sparked further controversy with its attempts to eliminate the apparent geographic disparities in the time an individual must wait for an organ. This book assesses the potential impact of the Final Rule on organ transplantation. It also presents new, original analyses of data, and assesses medical practices, social and economic observations, and other information on: access to transplantation services for low-income populations and racial and ethnic minority groups; organ donation rates; waiting times for transplantation; patient survival rates and organ failure rates leading to retransplantation; and cost of organ transplantation services.

Author : Robert S.D. Higgins,Juan A. Sanchez
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781681087566

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The Multi-Organ Donor: A Guide to Selection, Preservation and Procurement by Robert S.D. Higgins,Juan A. Sanchez Pdf

Advances in the science of immunology have improved the success rate of organ transplantations since the mid twentieth century. Organ transplantation is now a lifesaving medical procedure for thousands of patients around the world with end-organ diseases. The lifesaving potential of transplantation has been limited by the number and quality of appropriate organ donors. The evolution of brain death criteria by the Harvard Ad-Hoc Committee Report has opened the door to understanding the importance of medical, legal and ethical challenges of organ donation in support of the growth of the transplant science. The possibility of organ donation from living donors has enhanced organ availability for patients with kidney failure. Modern inotropes and immunosuppression regimens have been critical to the success of other organ transplant procedures. However, the cornerstone of successful transplantation continues to be the appropriate selection, evaluation, preservation of organ tissues and the successful surgical procurement process to mitigate the impact of tissue ischemia and reperfusion. In this textbook, the art and science of organ donation and tissue preservation is examined. Through this authoritative text by leaders in the field, the editors provide a state of the art review of modern preservation techniques, patient selection and screening criteria, as well as best practices for multi-organ procurement. Information presented in the book will familiarize readers with the initial steps of determining organ availability which ultimately enables health care professionals to realize the extraordinary potential of successful multi-organ transplant procedures. This guide is intended to be a fundamental resource for students, residents, faculty and staff for all disciplines allied to health care delivery and organ donation.

Author : Sque, Magaret R. G.,Payne, Sheila
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335216925

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Organ And Tissue Donation: An Evidence Base For Practice by Sque, Magaret R. G.,Payne, Sheila Pdf

This ground-breaking book is a valuable addition to the end-of-life, palliative and bereavement care literature

Author : Lainie Friedman Ross,J. Richard Thistlethwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197618202

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The Living Organ Donor As Patient by Lainie Friedman Ross,J. Richard Thistlethwaite Pdf

"This is a book about living solid organ donors as patients in their own right. This book is premised on the supposition that the field of living donor organ transplantation is ethical, even if some specific applications are not. Living donor organ transplantation is controversial at its core because it exposes one patient (the living donor) to clinical risks for the clinical benefit of another (the candidate recipient). It is different than obstetrics which also involves 2 patients-a pregnant woman and her fetus-- because transplantation involves two physically individuated patients who, in most cases, individually consent to the medical interventions. And in many cases, the donor-recipient interdependence is optional because deceased donor organs may be available. So before one can begin, one must ask, even if only rhetorically: Is living donation ethical? The question is not new: one of the first to ask about the ethics of living donor transplantation was Joseph Murray, the surgeon credited with performing the first successful living donor kidney transplant which paved the way for the broad adoption of kidney and other solid organ transplantation around the world"--

Author : Katrina Bramstedt,Rena Down
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442211155

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The Organ Donor Experience by Katrina Bramstedt,Rena Down Pdf

Despite starting slowly with some academic jargon about altruism and people's motivations to donate organs, the book quickly takes a right turn and gets interesting. The authors sprinkle little informative tidbits along the way-Asian-Americans constituted only 3.4% of U.S. donors-and bring their points alive through little vignettes when examining the origins of altruism. The authors would make brilliant sales reps: they put forth a convincing argument about what a great humanitarian effort living donation is then patiently explain the evaluation process to reassure readers of the minimal costs. The few downsides are reviewed and discussed-for example, how to deal with family members who do not support the decision to donate or the devastation donors might experience when a recipient dies. Resources, bibliography, and index occupy a full 36 pages, yet for the most part this book escapes the drudgery of a research-laden study and instead reads as a fascinating story about a very human issue. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Non-Heart-Beating Transplantation II: The Scientific and Ethical Basis for Practice and Protocols
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309183550

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Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Care Services,Committee on Non-Heart-Beating Transplantation II: The Scientific and Ethical Basis for Practice and Protocols Pdf

In 1997, the Institute of Medicine published a report entitled Non-Heart- Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement. The findings and recommendations of that study defined the ethical and scientific basis for non-heart-beating organ donation and transplantation, and provided specific recommendations for practices that affirm patient welfare, promote patient and family choice, and avoid conflicts of interest. Following the 1997 study, the Department of Health and Human Services requested a follow up study to promote such efforts. The central activity for this study was a workshop held in Washington, D.C., on May 24-25, 1999. The workshop provided the opportunity for extensive dialogue on non-heart-beating organ donation among hospitals and organ procurement organizations (OPOs) that are actively involved in non-heartbeating organ and tissue donation and those with concerns about whether and how to proceed. The findings and recommendations of this report are based in large measure on the discussions and insights from that workshop. Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation includes seven recommendations for developing and implementing non-heart-beating-donor protocols. These recommendations were based on the findings and recommendations from the 1997 IOM report and consensus achieved among participants at the national workshop. The committee developed these recommendations as steps towards an approach to non-heart-beating-donor organ donation and procurement consistent with underlying scientific and ethical guidelines, patient and family options and choices, and public trust in organ donation.