Organ transplant

When you lose a loved one, you want to honor their memory in the most heartfelt manner. To give the departed soul the farewell they deserve, trust their funeral planning details to Dreier-Giltner Funeral Home. For over 100 years, this funeral home has provided grief support and resources to clients in and around the Rochester, NY, area. With the aim to pay a fitting tribute to the deceased, they advise you to consider a few important factors when planning the funeral. Going above and beyond to…

Cole, in “Your Body’s Real Age”, presents the lifespan of your body and the length of time for it to renew or replace (npr.org June 28, 2016). There are three body parts that stay almost the same and generating through our lifetime and eight parts of your body that renew and generate every day, weeks and years. The first three body part that stays and develop through time are our hearts, lens and neurons. Half of our heart remain the same since you were born because the process to replace these…

A miracle of science now a common medical procedure through every hospital across the globe. Transplants were every doctor’s from the 1800’s fantasy, and are now every doctor’s reality. A stark white room, slightly dirtied by musty browns. Sheets of white are draped across tables near the patient, in case of excess bleeding. Their surface rippled softly as the wind from the open window drifted in. The scent of sterilized metal lingered in the air, sharp and sour to their noses. Tiles gleamed…

Christ figures are displayed throughout literary works all the time and they help create a deeper and symbolic meaning to the story. An example of a Christ figure is in the movie Seven Pounds, where the character Ben Thomas devotes his life to helping others with illnesses. Some similarities that I found Ben shared with Christ include: 1)Ben Thomas is in agony because he regrets causing the accident that killed innocent people. 2)Ben is self-sacrificing because he helps the terminally ill and…

authorize doctors to do and do not do certain medical procedures in you in case you become incapacitated or medically unconscious to make decisions or even speak. Many people are now including organ donation in their living will. This is a noble and admirable practice. Imagine how many people your organs could save when you die. That is like living your life to the fullest. Even in death, you could be sure you are contributing well to humanity. What medical procedures are covered? A living will…

“I didn’t know that the survival rate for SCA victims decays by 10% for every minute without proper defibrillation; after 10 minutes, survival is negligible.” When I first read this, I was shocked. I did not realize how quickly, and without warning sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can take a life. Before recently, I have never had a reason to know about heart complications, the thousands of lives SCA has taken, or the urgent need for life saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in schools,…

dialysis machine. You can change and pick what treatment and it doesn't have to be just for kidney dialysis. The machine can also help with high blood pressure,bone problems, and blood vessel problems. If you are on dialysis you may have to get kidney transplant. People in U.S. live more on the machine more than people in other countries. In other words the kidney dialysis machine measures a…

the importance of lung transplants needed for these patients especially if this is their only option left. They are given to patients depending on their position on the transplant list but bias remains that the lungs won’t be “put to good use” in Cystic Fibrosis patients. Research indicates that there’s a 67 percent survival rate with lung transplant and over half of that percentage live up to ten years (Science Daily Cystic Fibrosis, 2015). In this case, lung transplants not only prolong their…

The twelve year old girl should get the liver because her liver damage was caused by someone else's mistakes and not by her own doing. She is an innocent child who has been poisoned by accident by her father who had misidentified a certain form of mushrooms and fed them to her. The former basketball star drank himself into this situation. If the former basketball star was given the liver who would be ridiculed for the rest of his life and be known only as the man who took a liver from a little…

Anencephalic Neonates: Ethical debates involving anencephalic neonates include the boundaries of organ procurement and the technical term used to describe the death of the neonates. Hospitals follow the cardiorespiratory criteria or in layman terms ‘the dead donor rule’ for standard organ procurement rules. This rule states that the patient has to be pronounced brain dead before his or her organs can be taken from them. Brain death involves failure of heart, failure of lungs, whole brain…