Whole-body transplant

current conditions according to his early kidney failures he was experiencing. Over the past few weeks his recovery has dramatically improved, stating October 30th that he no longer needs any type of dialysis treatments as well as needing a kidney transplant. His vast recovery has gone viral through the news media and social network pages, but there have also been much controversy over people who felt upset and furious towards his quick responses for donors. Before his recovery, not only had he…

human body. The brain makes the heart function, but without a heart nothing else functions. In fact, in the absence of brain function, a human body can be kept alive for a surprising length of time as long as the heart can be made to beat. The heart pumps blood through 60,000 miles of blood vessels for a daily volume of 2,000 gallons of blood. That's enough to fill a 10 x 20-foot pool 10 feet deep, and the heart does this by beating 100,000 times a day, circulating blood throughout the body in…

enormous blessing upon mankind. The process has allowed saving countless dying souls year by year. Organ transplantation is a surgical process by which healthy organs, donated by inviduals, are transplanted into a patient who is in critical need for a transplant. The operation is astounding and mesmerising, yet the problem is there has been a critical shortage in organ donations around the world which has leads to a drought of organ donations. Hundreds of thousands of patients are in an…

Organ and Body Donation Doctors should compensate families for organs of the deceased. There are multiple reasons why doctors should compensate families. One reason is that the compensation could help the family with financial issues, another is it will help reduce sales of organs on Black Market. The last reason is the compensation could help reduce the cost of surgery. The first reason is the compensation will help the donors family with financial issues. The compensation would…

The Dead Donor Rule Organ donors can be either alive or deceased at the time of donation. Deceased donors will be pronounced dead per cessation of either brain or circulatory activity. The dead donor rule not part of any legislation moreover it is a governing ethical guideline which states that a donor must be pronounced death prior to the removal of life -sustaining organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys (Veatch and Ross, 2015). Ethical concerns pertaining death surround the…

UNOS stands United Network for Organ Sharing is a private organization that's not for any profit what so ever manages the organ transplant system in service for the federal government. UNOS help many people get these organs they need to save their lives. They help match people with organs at first with their factors they do match up against what they don't. Those factors being blood type, height, weight and other medical relevance things connected to organ transplantation. Geography figures…

According to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS), one in three Australians will need a transfusion in their life, but only one in thirty Australians donates blood. The aim of research is to discover factors to influence people not to donate blood in population across multiethnic, diverse culture and different demographic groups in Australia. This will enable ARCBS to create a strategy that will motivate a greater proportion to donate blood. The reasons of low participation rate of…

In theory, surgery should work. Yet, doctors have doubts. Valery Spiridinov, the world’s first head transplant volunteer, suffers from a degenerative disease known as Werdnig Hoffman. The incurable illness is characterized by the wasting away of muscle tissue, so the thirty year-old has placed high hopes in Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero’s proposed head transplant procedure. While, in theory, every part of the surgery should work, many health professionals question that Valery’s…

The ethics of Organ Transplantation. Since the first organ transplantation in 1954 we have made significant medical advances in the practice, at this point it has progressed to where the major problem associated with it is not the surgery-related mortality that plagued early attempts, but the availability of viable organs for transplantation. Attempts to solve this conundrum, and meet the demand for organs, have resulted in a plethora of other issues, around the world doctors and patients alike…

In 1984 to streamline organ donation the legislation called the Transplantation of Human Act was passed in India. The act accepeted Brain death as a form of death and made the sales of organs a punishable offense. To overcome organ shortage, developed countries are re-looking at the ethics of unrelated programs and there seems to be a move towards making this an acceptable legal alternative. Both state and legislature have been put in in place to provide the safest and most equitable system for…