What would happen if you got an organ transplant from a werewolf?
Then you’d die of rejection.Organ transfer isn’t like a blood transfusion where two factors are needed. It’s pretty obvious the body chemistry of werewolves change when they change. If you did indeed get a tissue donation from a werewolf, it would kill you or damn near kill you every full moon.Then again, it does seem to depend upon the light of the full moon, and your insides are pretty dark, so maybe you’d be okay.
Can a transplanted organ be reused and transplanted into a new patient after the patient dies? If so, is there a record for most patients receiving a single organ?
performed every year involve the same organ spending time in more than two bodies. The most common scenario arises when a patient in the late stages of a disease receives a new liver or kidney as a last-ditch effort to keep him alive. If he dies shortly after, and the new organ wasn't the cause, re-transplanting may be an option.There are a few good reasons, however, why donated organs aren't often re-gifted. If the organ is coming from someone who was so sick that he needed a new organ, it probably lived a pretty rough second life. What's more, dying involves the entire body shutting down. "The trauma of dying can injure an organ," says Robert Montgomery, the director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center at Johns Hopkins University. "And then the second person dies, and the organ is taken out again. That's more injury." But the main problem with playing hot potato with an organ is the scar tissue that forms on it within weeks after the first surgery. That tissue must be removed before a second transplant, and doing so can injure the organ too much to make it worth re-donating.
Organ transplant?
I think transplantation is a very good thing. I've personally had a xenotransplant using an aortic valve. At the time I had 4 young children to care for, hubby and I were split up and it has not only allowed me to see my children grow up and have children of their own but it has also given me a whole new outlook on life, so much so I've completely changed some of the things I was doing in my past that weren't good for me. I also tout organ transplantation every chance I get. Most of my family members along with myself are now registered organ donors. Organ donation has also saved the life of my nephew who was born with a very rare heart/lung/spleen syndrome called heterotaxia asplenia. He's 5 now and doing great. I really hope you make a high grade on your paper. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions you may have about my transplant and I'll tell you more about my experience.
Who should get organ transplants?
A few days ago I saw an article on CNN about a baby who was going to be denied a heart transplant because he was disabled. He had a rare genetic defect that put him at a high risk for tumors and infections but I believe it also had to deal with a delay in cognitive development as well. In the end this baby didn't actually need one and the parents were able to find a doctor who could help. When I read through the comment section I could see people arguing that a child like this should have a chance and others saying they shouldn't waste it (and part of it was due to cognitive development). So I started to look up more cases where someone was denied because of cognitive issues and it seems that it does happen. However, you can't actually deny someone an organ transplant because of cognitive development issues. And that organ transplants should be based on survival rates. There are only so many organs available and there are many people who die waiting to get an organ that they need. Should more factors go into who gets a transplant? For example: Should a murderer who was sentenced to life in prison get a transplant over a person who is a law abiding citizen, that has a family to take care of? Should a child with mental retardation and other health issues get a transplant before a child with no mental or other physical health problems? Should quality of life be considered? Should it also depend on who has more "use" to society be a factor? I know this is kinda messed up and it is really sad. Personally, I feel like we should value everyone the same but at the same time if I had a loved one that needed a transplant and a murderer or a rapist got that organ before my loved one, I would be ticked off. So I can see how in some cases people feel like more needs to be factored in. What do y'all think and why? Also, should organ donation be required? I'm an organ donor because I know that when I die I won't need them anymore. So why do some people decide against it?
3 Reasons Why Organ Transplant Are Good?
The only way is to come up with approximates based on cases and statistics we currently have. Most of these cases would have to come from personal testimony, access to which is limited at best. The best place to start may be public records of court cases where JW family members disputed non- JW members over the issue. Maybe take a city, county, state, or even national average and then take the number of JWs in the USA to come up with a percentage of JWs who did not receive a transplant and died as a result. This would require an enormous amount of research and time and would only give a limited result. It would not account for undocumented cases and those cases where it is not possible to access the patient's medical records to see whether or not they died. As a ball park guess, I think it would be safe and fair to say that several hundred JWs have died as a result of refusing an organ transplant.
What would happen if an organ transplant fails?
Depending on what organ it is, there are different outcomes. Here are comments regarding the most common transplants.Kidney transplant: we cannot live without kidneys, which help to detoxify our bodies. But there is an alternative in this case: dialysis, which can keep the patient alive until another kidney transplant is found.Heart transplant: if a heart transplant fails, the patient could die, unless an external artificial heart is used to keep the patient alive. Ray Schilling's answer to Why can't we just replace the human heart with some blood pumping machine and make the body immortal?Liver transplant: at the present time there is no device, which could take over the complex function of a liver. If there is a slow deterioration of the liver function of the transplant, it may be possible to save the patient’s life by finding a traffic accident victim where the liver could be used as a new transplant. But if the liver transplant deteriorates rapidly, there is nothing that can be done to save the patient.Lung transplant: We cannot live without our lungs. But when a lung transplant is starting to fail, the blood gases indicate deterioration and the patient becomes short of breath. At this stage Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can keep the patient alive. This may be used for a longer period of time, but there is a significant mortality associated with it (40 to 50%). Those who survive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can hope for another lung transplant from a traffic accident victim. If extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is not immediately available, the patient will die.
How is it decided who gets a donated organ for transplant?
Thanks for the A2A.I only personally deal with cornea recovery. Often I work with other OPO’s (Organ Procurement Organizations) who are also recovering organs or tissues on the same donor.With corneas, there are enough donors so there is not a waiting list like with organs (heart, liver, kidney’s etc). So you would just make an appointment with an ophthalmologist who does cornea transplants after you were referred.The reason why there is no list, is that we can recover corneas up to 20 hours (maybe 24 on a young donor) after death. Corneas also have fewer ‘rule outs’ than other tissues. We have FDA guidelines on which diseases the person has that are acceptable that would rule them out for other tissue donations. So while there are not ‘plenty’ of donors- there are enough that no list needs to be formed. If there is no cornea available when your surgery is scheduled, they will just schedule you for the following week.Sometimes we will have an emergency surgery come up due to injury, but probably 98% are planned in advance.In the USA corneas need to be transplanted within 7 days of recovery. There are other countries that have less strict standards- with just as good outcomes. If we have recovered a cornea that is not needed for transplant in the USA, then we will send them to another country (the eye bank I work for has a doctor in Cairo Egypt). If there is no need for that then the corneas are used for research (if agreed to by the family during initial approach). If the corneas cannot be used they are ethically destroyed.Each ophthalmologist usually has a contract with an ‘eye bank’-it may be local or in a nearby state. The eye banks all work together- and import and export tissue (corneas) depending on the surgery schedules and amount of donors that week.As far as who gets which cornea- that is private and covered by HIPAA. But I get emails from the company saying Donor XXX OS (left cornea) went to a 65 year old female in blank city and OD (right cornea) destroyed due to infiltrate.I am sure you were probably asking about heart / kidney / liver etc and the lists that they have. I am sorry that I cannot contribute to that answer.
If you need a blood transfusion or organ transplant, how do you know what race it comes from?
I'm not a racist or anything, but I've always wondered if hospitals can actually provide that kind of information. Like, if I need a liver transplant, would the doctor be able to tell me (if I asked) the race of the person who donated the organ? I just thought of this because have a friend who's pure Aboriginal (Inuit) that says that he'd rather die than get a transplant from a non-Inuit. He's not a race-hater or anything, but he's proud to be Inuit and doesn't want to break the purity of his family traditions. No one in his family has ever gotten blood or an organ from another race, and doesn't want to be the first.
If I conceived an infant to use their organs as a transplant for their ill older child, would that make me immoral?
It’s happened and there’s still an ethical debate over it.Parents create baby to save sisterMore Babies Being Born to Be Donors of TissueThis one is slightly different- these parents knew their child would die soon after birth, but the mother decided to carry it to term so its organs could be donated to other babies who needed transplants. Tragically, the baby was born premature and the organs were too small. She lived for 96 minutes. It’s hard to know the ethics of this one.Mum who had baby to save another child told she is too small to donate organsThere was a debate about using the organs from anencephalic newborns; they’re born without brains and only partial skulls and are effectively brain-dead. They normally live only a few hours or days; a few have lived for a year or two on very aggressive life support. The ethics of it were discussed in this paper from 2005:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc...It was ultimately decided against. Considering the advancements in medicine since then, more of these babies can be kept alive longer, so it’s probably not going to be a future option unless the parents make an issue out of it.I think it should be a parental decision that should be considered and respected. They know their baby is effectively dead, and if their child can save other children who have a chance at real life…why shouldn’t they have that choice?