"In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them.

CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted."

https://www.cbsnews.com/organdonors/

I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease. I urgently need a living kidney donor. If you or someone you know is willing to help, please visit https://www.nkr.org/PZG643 to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. Every share brings me closer to a second chance at life! #KidneyDonation #OrganDonation #ESKD #DonateLife #GiveLife #ShareYourSpare #BeADonor #Transplant #Hope #MedicalMiracle

I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease. I urgently need a living kidney donor. My blood type is A+. If you or someone you know is willing to help, please visit https://www.nkr.org/PZG643 to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. Every share brings me closer to a second chance at life! #KidneyDonation #OrganDonation #ESKD #DonateLife #GiveLife #ShareYourSpare #BeADonor #Transplant #Hope #MedicalMiracle

Announcing an upcoming panel on probably the most active controversy in #bioethics that people outside medicine (and many within) haven't heard of, #ta-NRP for #organdonation. (We're facing decisions about this at #UCSF and many other hospitals are also considering their policies.) This is a method for increasing the quantity and quality of organs available for transplantation, but which many critics believe violates the dead donor rule. In ta-NRP circulatory death of the donor is declared, after which perfusion is restored to thoracic and abdominal organs while brain perfusion is (we think) surgically prevented. Ta-NRP is performed in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and in some centers in the US; is contrary to guidelines in Canada, Australia, and NZ; and has been paused in Belgium and the UK pending further study.

At #Neuroethics2025 in Munich next month we'll host a panel, International Controversies over ta-NRP for Organ Procurement: Brain Perfusion and the Dead Donor Rule, including panelists to share key perspectives from three countries where ta-NRP has been performed, critiquing different conceptions of the role of the brain in circulatory death and how national professional and public norms affect views of this procedure:

• Karola Kreitmair (Univ. of Wisconsin, US) is a philosopher whose work addresses philosophical arguments regarding ta-NRP and the dead donor rule.
• Amelia Hessheimer (Hosp. Univ. La Paz, Spain) is a transplant surgeon and co-author of the European Society for Organ Transplantation's consensus statement on NRP.
• Alex Manara (N. Bristol NHS Trust, UK) is an intensivist and author of an influential early analysis on ta-NRP and the dead donor rule.

https://neuroethicssociety.org/posts/international-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/ #neuroethics

What a terrific idea is the #AskMeAbout hashtag.

While by no means an expert, you can ask me about

1. #SteamLocomotives
2. #Nursing and #IntensiveCare
3. #HealthInformatics
4. #OrganDonation
5. #Australia

...and anything else that I have tooted about!

Transplant Board: U.S. Should Screen At-Risk Organ Donors for Chagas
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Last week, ProPublica reported on the death of Bob Naedele, who passed after he received an infected heart; his death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested for Chagas.

The policy change comes after years of recommendations from experts for screening to prevent such deaths.

#OrganDonation #Health #HealthCare #Chagas #Transplant

https://www.propublica.org/article/organ-procurement-transplantation-network-donor-chagas-screening?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Organ Transplant Patients Can Die When Donors Aren't Screened for This Parasitic Disease
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Bob Naedele died after receiving a heart from a donor with Chagas disease.

His death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested. The group that governs U.S. transplant policies is considering mandatory screening of at-risk donors.

New, by @carolinechen

#Health #HealthCare #OrganDonation #OrganDonors #Transplant #Patients

https://www.propublica.org/article/transplant-patients-risk-chagas-unscreened-organ-donors?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

It's National Giving Hearts Day

Have you signed up as an organ donor? If you haven't... why not?

There are a lot of misconceptions around organ and tissue donation. Doctors DO try their hardest to save your life, old and sick people CAN sometimes still donate, you CAN have an open casket funeral, and the vast majority of religions actively endorse organ donation or at least consider it to be the family's choice.

Read more about what can be donated, how it all works, and how many lives can be impacted by the generosity of one person (spoiler: it's a LOT).

https://www.louisepachella.com/blog/seasonofgiving

Har du taget stilling til organonation på sundhed.dk? Hvis ikke, så ind med dig og få det gjort, det tager ikke mange minutter, og for min skyld kan du vælge ja eller nej, det vigtigste er, at du tager stilling #SundhedDK #Sundhed #Organdonation

After 2 weeks in ICU, my wife passed away in early 2021 from long-term post-transplant complications.
Daughter. Wife. Mom. Superhero.

She will be missed by many.
This picture is 24 hours after Double-Lung Transplant #2.
It took her three pairs of lungs to get to the end of her race.
#OrganDonation #ThankYouDonors #RecycledLungs

If you haven’t already registered your #OrganDonation decision yet, you can do so on the link below - and please have the conversation with your family and friends so they know too. https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk