Organ transplants Flashcards
Trillium Gift of Life
responsible for delivering and coordinating organ and tissue donation and transplantation services across the province
What organ can be transplanted
liver, small bowel, kidney, pancreas, heart, and lung
first heart transplant
1968
first double lung transplant
Before 1986
first ever hand transplant done
2016
Living liver transplant?
1993`
What organ has been transplanted more than any other organ?
liver
What percentage of Ontarians are registered donors?
35%
Brain damage importance?
If the physician determines that all brain activity has ceased the patient becomes eligible to provide life to those on the transplant waiting list
living donation
When someone donates a portion of their liver or one of their kidneys to a patient while the donor is still alive.
Deceased donation
An organ can be given at the time of the donor’s death. Only possible when the person is in the hospital on on a ventilator when they are pronounced brain dead/ Only possible after all attempts to save the patents life have been tried and brain death has been declared
Medical advice and organ tranplant?
You have to be able to comply to medical advice in order to get an organ transplant
Paired transplants
two separate but willing donors are each unable to donate their intended recipient due to blood group incompatibility.
Domino transplants
Occurs when a non-directed donor starts a chain of transplants, thus helping several patients in the process. Often this donor will donate to a recipient (1), while that who do not will donate to recipient 2, while their donor will donate to 3 and so forth.
expressed consent
an individual will not be an organ donor unless he or she explicitly states otherwise
presumed consent
the government assumes everyones is okay with donating their organs, unless they express they don’t want to donate
