the presentation is about the donation and transplantation processes

1. Body Organ Donation
interesting facts

2. The donation is a procedure when The donor is taken to an
operating room, where organs are surgically removed. After
that, the organs are sent to the transplant hospitals where
candidates are waiting for them…
There are 2 types of donation:
● The living donation
● The deceased donation
What is donation?

3. The living donation
• Kidneys
• Liver
• Skin
• Bone marrow
• Blood-forming cells
Not allowed during
• uncontrolled high blood pressure
• diabetes
• cancer
• hepatitis
• acute infections

4. What is the time frame for
transplanting organs?
thoracic organs like the heart and lungs, can only remain viable
for transplant after being outside of the body for four to six hours,
while the liver can function for up to 12 hours and kidneys up to 36
hours.

5. • Two doctors not involved in organ and tissue
donation must declare you brain dead before
donation
• The body is treated with dignity, care and respect
• There is no cost to the donor or their family
Deceased donation

6. How Donation
Saves Lives
One person can save eight lives
and help 75 others through organ,
eye and tissue donation.

7. Is there an age limit to becoming an
organ donor?
95 years old Cecil Lockhart 3 years old Ezra Rosario

8. nearly all religious groups support organ and tissue donation and transplantation as
long as it does not damage persons life or encourage the death of the donor
Religious views on donation

9. Donations in Georgia
only live donation is performed in Georgia, and
the deceased donation field is not developed

10. In 1954, the kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted
successfully. Liver, heart and pancreas transplants were successfully
performed by the late 1960s, while lung and intestinal organ transplant
procedures were begun in the 1980s.
The first human organ transplant

11. Thank you for
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