Lung transplantation

Review of Case Study The case study we chose to research relates to kidney disease, the increased incidence of caries and periodontal disease. This case study patient is a 49 year old Caucasian female. She is healthy with the exception of having polycystic kidney disease. For this condition the patient does not take medications or receive any type of dialysis treatments. This patient has several missing teeth, large restorations on all posterior teeth, crowns and root canals. Currently she…

Organ Sales Will Save Lives In the essay “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanna Mackay, kidney failure is the main topic. In the thesis Mackay says “Government should not ban the sale of the human organs, they should regulate it.” It is supported by the evidence it will save lives. 350,000 people in America struggle with this situation each year. She also states that more people will be willing to give up their kidneys if it were legal. There are other ways like dialysis, which is a temporary…

among hundreds or even thousands of patients. Even if the cost of the payment to the persons selling their kidney is around $20,000, there would still be a savings of over $70,000. This information shows that the sale or purchase of kidneys for transplantation could be cost effective, even when the cost of the payment is calculated. In addition, since a lot of dialysis patients are on Social Security and/or Medicare, the money for dialysis is being spent by the public healthcare system, which is…

100,791 people in the United States of America are currently on a waiting list for a lifesaving kidney. This is a very depressing fact that many families are dealing with right now. The average wait time for a persons first kidney transplant is about three and a half years. For many they just can 't wait that long for a kidney. This puts people in desperate situations to get a kidney transplant. When waiting isn’t an option there is an alternative to getting a kidney and that is through the…

Joanna Mackay’s essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives speaks for itself. It is what the world has been going through for more than two decades up to this point. The shortage within the supply of organs, in this case, Kidneys. Kidneys are at a high demand not just domestically but internationally and that is where the problem began to get uncontrollable. In the year 2000, 2,583 Americans died while waiting for a Kidney transplant. While internationally the number sat right around 50,000 people. With…

Kidney Transplants In the United States there are 121,678 people waiting for a life saving organ transplant. Of those, there are 100,791 waiting for a kidney transplant. People are put on the kidney transplant list when their own kidneys begin to fail. A kidney transplant is an option to help prolong the life of a person who is experiencing kidney failure. The process of a kidney transplant is very long and stressful process and sometimes ends poorly. Even though kidney transplants are not…

maximum benefit, or the idea that alcoholics should not be excluded from the list, but should be placed behind many others, resulting in a very small chance of receiving a new liver. In their paper “Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation”, Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler seek to determine just this. Moss and Siegler argue the second view, maximum benefit, and say that alcoholics should be placed at the bottom of the transplant waiting list. They claim that because liver…

A patient must be, “At risk of imminent death from biventricular failure, have no other medical or surgical treatment options, eligible for heart transplantation, have sufficient space in the chest cavity to accommodate the device. Generally this includes patients who have a body surface area ≥ 1.7m2” (TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART). An artificial heart transplant is suggested by a heart surgeon when the patient…

Automatic Organ Donation Automatic Organ Donation should be mandatory. Donating organs you will be able to save lives and that will make you a true hero to that person and their family. People in every age give and receive donation in 2014 29,532 people received organ transplant. “Every 10 minutes people are being wait listed 22/79 die each day waiting for transplant. The government should make organ donation mandatory. People are dying every 10 minutes waiting on donors. As of 2014 30,032…

the KatieCaples.org. How would you feel to be waiting on this long list? II. We all have the opportunity to become organ donors and should be, in order to save lives while we are no longer able to live ourselves. III. My grandma received a double-lung transplant three years ago, which ultimately saved her life. I am also an organ donor. IV. Everyone who is eligible should be an organ donor. BODY I. There is a continuous need for donors in our world today. New strategies and advertisements…