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What are some ethical issues for heart transplant?
Ethics is a practice of living while not interfering with the way others live. Unless you're taking the donor heart out of a living person, the only ethical decision to be made is who gets the donor heart (can someone else used it better?)
What do you call a non-living donor?
A non-living donor is referred to as a deceased donor.
Why is the list of living donor organs much shorter?
The list of living donor organs is shorter because not all organs can be donated while the donor is alive, due to the complexity of the organ and the impact on the donor's health. The most commonly donated organs from living donors are the kidney and liver, as they are organs that a person can live without or regenerate. Other organs, such as the heart or lungs, are not commonly donated from living donors due to the high risk involved.
How is it possible for a person to be a living donor for a liver transplantation?
It is possible to transplant part of a liver from a living donor and have both donor and recipient survive.
What is a beating-heart transplant?
A beating-heart transplant is a heart transplant operation in which the donor heart is kept full of blood and continues to beat in a machine between donor and recipient.
Who wrote book regarding heart transplant recipients picking up same traits as heart donor?
Paul Pearsall wrote the book 'The heart's Code' which gives stories of recipients receiving donor heart memories
Can you give your heart to somebody that has a bad heart?
Although popularized in fiction (TV, films), it is extremely rare to have "direct donation" of hearts (e.g. from a dying relative or friend). The "elective donor" process is becoming a common procedure for kidneys and for sections of the liver, where the donor will continue living after the transplant. But the heart is almost always a total transplant, and has to come from a recently deceased donor, one who dies from something that does not damage the heart. Doctors cannot approve the deliberate death of a healthy person even if it means saving another.
What is a sentence using the word donor?
The heart transplant was delayed because it took longer to remove from the donor. The charity gave an award to its one-millionth donor.
Can you live without a portion of your heart and could you donate part of it to someone else?
As far as I'm aware it is not yet possible to donate part of your heart to someone else as a living donor. A person needs a complete and fully-functioning heart to be healthy, and hearts do not have the capacity to regenerate themselves - both of these reasons would mean that attempting to donate part of one's heart would be incredibly risky to the health of the donor.
How long after a donor dies can the organs still be used?
An cadaverous organ donor can either be a "heart-beating donor" (aka, brain dead) or a "non-heart beating donor". Those in the first category have suffered a severe head injury, meaning they will never regain consciousness or recover, but their heart is still pumping blood around their body. Whereas those in the other group have suffered some event which has stopped their heart - e.g a sudden cardiac arrest. Those in the "non-heart beating donor" category are never used for heart transplants, since their heart has been the cause of their death; their heart does not work. Only those in the "heart-beating donor" category are used for heart transplants; in these donors, the heart does not stop beating until it is removed from their body - the heart is not "dead" as such, but the donor is brain dead so has no use for a functioning heart. And just because the heart ceases to beat when outside of the body does not mean it is "dead". Possibly your question should be "how long do you get between harvesting a heart for transplant until it becomes unusable?", since using a "dead" heart for a transplant would be utterly pointless. However, if that was your question, you get around 4-5 hours.
Can A positive blood type be a living donor for type O?
no
How do you spell living donor in spanish?
"donador con vida"
