Section 1: Organ Donation Overview
What is an organ transplant?
Organ trasnplantion is the surgical removal of an organ or tissue from one person to another person.
Why do people need organ transplants? (give 2 examples)
Because their organ don't work good so they donor their organ to other people.
What is an organ donor?
People who donate their organ.
What health requirements do organ donors have?
They can't have HIV, actively spreading brain cancer, or certain severe current infection
What type of organs can living donors donate and how can they donate these organs if they are still living?
The organ that you can doniate when you are living is lung, liver, intestines, pancreas.
What are some types of organs that brain dead organ donors can only donate?
Kidney, heart liver lung pancears intestines.
What does it mean to be brain dead?
That your brain can't work but the rest of your body can.
What is an organ recipient?
A person or thing that is given the organ
Why do people need organ donors?
So they can donate their organ to other people.
4 interesting facts about organ donation: (# of people waiting for an organ, number of people an organ donor can help, number of people who die each day waiting for an organ. How many people in the US are signed up as organ donors. The number of organ donations a day.)
That you can donate their organ
That to help other people live
That people can live better with a new organ
That to help people live with a new organ
What is an organ transplant?
Organ trasnplantion is the surgical removal of an organ or tissue from one person to another person.
Why do people need organ transplants? (give 2 examples)
Because their organ don't work good so they donor their organ to other people.
What is an organ donor?
People who donate their organ.
What health requirements do organ donors have?
They can't have HIV, actively spreading brain cancer, or certain severe current infection
What type of organs can living donors donate and how can they donate these organs if they are still living?
The organ that you can doniate when you are living is lung, liver, intestines, pancreas.
What are some types of organs that brain dead organ donors can only donate?
Kidney, heart liver lung pancears intestines.
What does it mean to be brain dead?
That your brain can't work but the rest of your body can.
What is an organ recipient?
A person or thing that is given the organ
Why do people need organ donors?
So they can donate their organ to other people.
4 interesting facts about organ donation: (# of people waiting for an organ, number of people an organ donor can help, number of people who die each day waiting for an organ. How many people in the US are signed up as organ donors. The number of organ donations a day.)
That you can donate their organ
That to help other people live
That people can live better with a new organ
That to help people live with a new organ