2. • The Process
• Diagnosis Organ
Average national
• Organ Failure waiting time
• Other Diseases Heart 113 days
Lungs 141 days
• Transplant Waitlist
Liver 361 days
• Plan Your Finances Kidneys 1,219 days
Pancreas 260 days
• Waiting for a Donor Intestine 159 days
Organ
History and Background
3. • The Process
• Understand How Matches are Made and Organs are
Allocated
• After the Transplant
• Take care of yourself
• Manage your Medications
• Follow-Up Care
• Anti-Rejection Medications
• Know your Pharmacist
• Contact the Donor Family
History and Background
4. • Timeline
• Before Modern Science
• 1667- First Blood Transfusion
• 1668- First Bone Transplant
• 19th Century
• 1818- First Human-Human Blood Transfusion
• 1878- First Human-Human Bone Transplant
• 1881- Skin Graft
• 1896- Attempts at Bone Marrow Transplant
History and Background
5. • Timeline
• 20th Century
• 1909- First Kidney Transplant
• 1953- Heart-Lung Bypass
• 1954- First Successful Kidney
Transplant
• 1960’s- First Successful Lung, Liver,
and Heart Transplant
• 1968- First Organ Donation Programs
Established
• Donor Card is Established as Legal
Document
• 1978- Federal End State Renal Disease
Act
History and Background
6. • Pros
• Saves Lives
• A deceased individual can save
up to 8 lives by donating organs
• Enhances the Lives of Others
• Last year 1 million people
received transplants that helped
them recover from injuries and
vision and hearing loss
• Families find comfort in
knowing that the loss of their
loved one was not in vain
Pros and Cons
7. • Cons
• Religions that have policies against organ donations due to various
beliefs
• Gypsies
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Shinto’s
• Unethical Practices
• China
• Concerns Involving Living Donors
• Breach of first rule of medicine-Do No Harm
• Recovery Time
• Time Off Work
Pros and Cons
8. • A kidney transplant takes about 3 hours
• A liver transplant can take up to 10 hours
• The kidney is the most donated organ
• In live organ donors, the recipient often recovers quicker
than the donor
Statistics
9. • On average, 75 people receive organ donations each day
• 19 people die each day waiting for transplants
• Every 10 minutes a name is added to the waitlist
• 90% of Americans say they support donations, but only
30% know the steps to take to become a donor
Statistics
