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Are you 'an' organ donor or 'a' organ donor?
An organ donorAnswer:use a before a word that starts with a consonant.eg a dog, a book, a tsunamiUse an before a word that starts with a vowel.eg an apple, an envelope, an ipad
Can you remove yourself from the NHS organ donor list?
Yes. Why would you want to though?
Which organ would be appropriate for a donor transplant?
Blood tests have to be done to determine a match.
How can a brain help us?
The brain is the organ which thinks. Without it we would have no intelligence.
Can a recovering druggie be an organ donor if he or she has been sober long enough?
Anybody can register as an organ donor. However, if you are asking whether your organs would actually be considered for use upon your death (assuming you died in a suitable way), there is nothing to rule you out from becoming an organ donor, so longs as your organs are still functioning and you do not have any significant medical problems (e.g any form of hepatitis, vCJD, HIV etc...)
What organ would be the hardest to treat with antimicrobial drugs?
Brain
Why should organ donors be tested?
Because the donor might be suffering from a medical condition which would render the organ useless to the recipient, or which would infect the recipient with a disease which would cause illness or rejection of the organ. Transplant patients are at high risk of infection and other complications even with the best possible precautions and organ transplant is a delicate, lengthy and costly procedure; there is no point performing such a procedure if the donor organ might carry with it a health risk which could negate the entire process.
Can anyone donate organs in the UK?
There are not age limits for becoming an organ donor, as long as you have no medical issues that would preclude you.
Can the brain be donated?
At the moment a brain transplant is not possible. It is not possible at the moment, but I wouldn't be too supprised if it was in the near future. And yes, the donor would have to be dead. But (I'm assuming) the brain on the other hand, would have to be alive, so the donor would have had to just died. Also, take into consideration that a transplant would be extremely hard to do, considering the brain is so delicate.
Can an organ donors family request money from the organ recipients?
You can not legally ask for money in exchange for an organ, under the rules governed by the International Transplantation Society. This applies to both before the organ is transplanted, and after the organ is transplanted, even if the recipient has to be retransplanted. This law is designed to eliminate illegal organ trading. However, technically the donor's family could request money from the recipient if it had nothing whatsoever to do with the transplant. For example, if the donor's family knew the recipient before the transplant, and the recipient happened to owe someone in the donor's family £10, it would be perfectly acceptable to ask for it back.
Why does Carly Patterson have an organ donor commercial did she die?
Carly Patterson is a "very much alive" spokesperson for the Taylor (Storch) Foundation, a foundation promoting organ donation. Taylor is a thirteen year-old who died in a ski accident and whose parents graciously donated her organs and other tissues saving and enhancing many lives a couple of years ago. Carly is signed up to be an organ donor upon her death, if the situation of her death allows her to do so (few deaths do as it requires special circumstance in which organs are still vital but the brain is not). The public service announcement is confusing, however, as it implies that Carly has already helped someone by donating an organ, which would make her either a living donor or already deceased. I am a living kidney donor, and was quite confused by the Public Service announcement. I absolutely believe in organ donation and the need to promote, but I think this particularly ad is misleading and confusing.
How can you get a donor card?
Contact the place through which you have donated blood. Organ donor cards may or not exist in your jurisdiction...in BC, Canada the info is attached to your driver's licence file. Bone marrow registries would contact you to be a donor if you are a part of the registry, I don't believe they issue cards.
