73-year-old Lawrence Covieo was limited in his ability to go places. "I was on Oxygen for 9 years and unable to go anywhere because of a hose that was attached to me." Covieo, a 30-year resident of the Victor Valley area, was put on a waiting list in July but soon received a call in October for a left lung transplant. Covieo’s physician, Dr. Rajeev Yelamanchili, a pulmonologist in Apple Valley referred him to Gordon Yung at UC San Diego for the transplant. Although receiving the transplant in such a short time, the majority of patients wait 6 months to 2 years. After receiving the transplant, Covieo waited nearby for 30 days in his motor home to monitor if his body would reject the new organ and soon received the green light to return home. Currently, Covieo 's oxygen is back to 97% and is now able to have the freedom of moving about and traveling. …show more content…
When asked if he felt "different" with another person 's lung in him, Covieo explained he is amazed and is grateful that the young man who lost his life could help him. According to organdonor.gov, eight people can be saved from one organ donor. Organdonor.gov states, "Each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants. However, an average of 22 people die each day waiting for transplants that can 't take place because of the shortage of donated organs." With deaths occurring everyday due to a lack of organ donation, this tragic situation could possibly be rectified by educating the public about organ donation by revealing stories behind successuful transplants and the reality that organ donation is truly giving
Seven percent of people on the waiting list—more than 6,500 each year— pass away before they are able to receive a transplant organ. One deceased organ donation supporter can save up to eight lives through organ donation. After death, organs that can be donated are the heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and small intestines. Tissues that can be donated include: corneas, skin, veins, heart valves, tendons, ligaments and bones. More than 40,000 corneal transplants take place each year in the United States; it is the most common transplant surgery that takes place (American Transplant). In addition, a donator can save and improve more than a hundred lives through tissue donation. Organ recipients are chosen based predominantly on medical need, location, and compatibility. Presently, 461,776 transplant procedures have taken place in the U.S. since
Imagine if it were your best friend, your parents, your siblings, or any other close person that needed a live saving organ transplant. It might change your mind on being an organ donor.
With a success rate between 80 and 90 percent organ donation has become a reliable and efficient option for people all over the world (LiveOnNy, 2016).
Organ donation myths have been around for a long time. These types of myths have stopped people from being organ donors as well as stopping families from letting there loved one receive a needed organ transplant. These myths are one of the main reasons for the organ shortage in the United States today. While some people decide to save another humans life some do not because of these myths surrounding organ donation. One person has the opportunity to save up to fifty lives just by deciding to be an organ donor and doing so would help with the organ shortage in the United States.
Unfortunately, the life-saving potential of transplantation is limited by the shortage of organs available for donation. In general, several suitable organs from deceased individuals are not harvested for donation (for reasons that will be discussed later) and this largely contributes to the shortage1. In 1968, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act gave individuals the right to donate organs and tissue in the United States1. Donors can either be living or deceased. Living donors are individuals who choose to donate portions of vital organs or a single kidney. Their donations can be directed to a specific recipient or can be an indirect altruistic donation; however, altruistic donations are very rare. Majority of donations come from deceased donors2. Deceased donors are individuals who have been medically declared dead, and who have previously registered as organ donors or whose legal representatives (usually their family members) have authorized organ donation on their behalf. One deceased donor can make up to eight donations from different organs, and therefore, can save up to eight lives4. Candidates for donation are chosen based on their blood-type (it must match the donated organ) and their medical need for a donation (the most critically ill patients are more likely to receive donations). The organs that are currently approved for transplantation are the kidney, heart, lung, and liver. Although living donations are a significant proportion of donations in the United States, this paper will focus on increasing the number of deceased
The increasing shortage of organs for transplant is a major issue for transplant services worldwide. Internationally, the number of patients included on the waiting lists has been increasing while the number of donors and organs available for transplantation has either not increased or increased at a much slower rate. This gap is increasing over time and results in patients spending longer on waiting lists. These patients may deteriorate or even die while waiting for a transplant. Closing the gap requires either an increased supply of organs for transplant or a reduction in the need for transplantation, e.g. through prevention of ill health. Increasing the supply of organs requires a higher number of organ donors, as well as increased utilization of available organs.
Each and every day there are as many as 79 people receiving organ donations that will change their life, but on the other hand there are many people who die from failed organs while they are waiting for transplants that never happen for them (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2016). People find out that one, or even several of their organs are failing and they are put on a list to receive a transplant with no intended time frame or guarantee. Organ transplants are an essential tool when it comes to saving someone’s life from a failing organ; the history of organ transplants, organ donation, and the preceding factors of organ failure all play a very important role in organ transplant in the United States.
Organ transplantation is one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. But this achievement tragically out of reach for many thousands of people whose lives might be saved. There just are not enough organs for everybody. About 75,000 Americans are on the waiting list for kidney transplants. But in
In New York alone, only 350 people are organ donors where 7,000 New Yorkers are currently awaiting organ transplants. One organ donor can save up to 8 lives by donating their heart, lungs, liver, kidney, pancreas, and intestines. Anyone can become an organ donor, and everyone should consider it.
The up-to-date medical advancement has come a long way, including making it possible for donating one’s major organs, blood, and tissues to desperate individuals needing them to sustain life. Organ donation still has problems even with the modern technology and breakthroughs. The majority of individuals need to comprehend to have a successful organ transplant it is essential to have active individuals that are willing to donate their organs. Typically, most individuals or family that consent to donate their precious organ 's desire life to continue. Their intentions are when one life is gone there is hope for another life to continue. Health care is experiencing a shortage in organ donation and the people that desperately need these organs
These individuals do so much more than help people live a healthier life, in most cases, it is literally giving them the gift of life to someone in desperate need of an organ. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that one organ donor has the capability to rescue eight lives (2015). A lot of people feel that they are only assisting one precious life, but the reality is they are helping more than one person. The lack of lifesaving organ is not the only problem for the U.S. but around the whole world. There are nearly 7,000 unnecessary deaths each year because people were not able to receive these precious organs they desperately needed to save their lives (Forbes, 2007). Unfortunately, the vast general, people don’t understand how valuable an organ can relate to someone in crucial need of one until they experience themselves this despairing situation. The experience affects an enormous amount of individuals that they have a passionate to give something in return to the community. Individuals love ones also has an enormous amount of influence from this desperate experience and are more willingly open to organ donation. This effect is meaningful to them because it is something that most individuals took for granted and has a lot more meaning to someone that is patiently waiting to receive their desperate need of a miracle of life. Furthermore, organ donation is
Lately have you been suffering because of something that you were either born with or can’t help? As of June of 2012 there were 126,681 patients suffering waiting for that one special person to donate their organs or organ to them so that there life can be changed and they can then live their lives to the fullest. That person whose life was changed forever, may have been waiting for that organ for months, or even year after year, for that one special phone call. You could be the next person to change someones life forever and ever. Organ donation is not only a self-fulfilling act of kindness, but if more people were to donate it’s effect it would have on others lives will have them ever grateful.
Organ Transplantation is a life-saving method that has become a normal part of daily conversation in the twenty first century. Most anyone you ask has known or known of someone who has qualified to be put on the transplant list in order to save their life, and many know someone who is successfully living and thriving with a donated organ. Often times these organs come from an anonymous donor that has met a fateful tragedy. But there are certain organs that can be donated from a living donor. While organ donation and transplantation has been proven to save lives as far back as the early 1800’s and many forward strides have been made over the past almost two centuries, it has not come without price tags, controversy
middle of paper ... ... en through the example of Nickolas Green, when you donate organs you not only save one life, but often numerous. Your body has so many vital organs and tissues that can be donated and given to many different people. For many of these people, what you donate to them, can be a matter of life or death.
While taking care of my patient on the cardiothoracic intensive care unit, I assisted another nurse who was helping her seventy-one year old patient ambulate to promote circulation and decrease the patient’s chance of developing pneumonia. It also helps the patient to build strength and confidence after such a major surgery like this patient underwent. This patient had come in with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy and had a history of cocaine and alcohol abuse, atrial fibrillation, mitral regurgitation, and hypertension. She had a left ventricular assistive device placed, and ten days after the device had been placed, she was diagnosed with H1N1, had a tracheostomy performed, and was placed on the ventilator. Since she had to wear a mask when outside of her room and had a tracheostomy, it was really difficult to understand the patient’s needs, and this was very concerning to me.