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How is a heart donor determined?
The heart must come from a person with the same blood type as the patient, unless it is blood type O negative. A blood type O negative heart is a universal donor and is suitable for any patient regardless of blood type.
Can a heart donor be a living donor?
Not really...
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
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.
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.
How readily is non-heart-beating-donation used?
Non-heart beating donation is used where possible, but the problem is as soon as the donor's heart stops beating, the organs deteriorate within their body. ( Obviously, NHBD is never used for heart transplants.) Usually kidneys can be transplanted from NHB donor's, however the donor needs to be injected with a preserving solution within minutes of the donor's heart stopping beating. (This usually means doing it before consent for organ donation has been obtained). This essentially means that the donor must die in a hospital and be treated by doctors with some foresight. Clearly, sometimes the odds of this happening are quite small, hence the low numbers of NHB donors. NHB donors pretty much have to die in a hospital, otherwise it can be quite tricky to assess how long they have been dead for, and how much the organs have deteriorate in that time. The conditions for a NHB donor to successfully donate organs are quite limiting, otherwise they would be used far more readily.
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?)
Can people with heart conditions get tattoos?
Yes. A tattoo has no connection to heart conditions.
What is the inciting incident of the movie john Q?
when the desparate father can't find a heart donor, he is prepared to sacifice his life by donating his heart to his dying little boy. But suddenly a donor appears at the last second before the surgeons start the transplant.
How long can a heart be kept once removed from a donor?
Under the right circumstances, it can be kept FOREVER.
Can you live with someone eles heart?
Yes Thousands of people are the recipients of donor hearts today.
