Despite what you have seen on some TV dramas or motion pictures, emergency room doctors and transplant surgeons are totally separate medical teams. Organ and tissue donation takes place only after all efforts to save your life have failed, you've been declared legally dead and your family has been consulted.

YES -- absolutely. Donation cannot be considered until after a person has died. Doctors and nurses will do everything possible to save your life. In fact, the medical team treating you is completely separate from the transplant team and they are dedicated to your complete recovery.

Yes. This is one of the most common myths regarding donation. Paramedics, doctors and nurses will do everything to save your life. In fact, the medical team treating you is separate from the medical team that CORE will bring to the hospital to perform the organ and tissue recovery.

Yes, absolutely. In California, the process of donation takes place only after two physicians declare you brain dead, using strict neurological examinations. Your family is then consulted regarding donation. Brain death occurs in patients who have suffered severe injury to the brain, such as a motor vehicle accident, a gunshot wound to the head, or blow to the head. (In the U.S. about 15,000 people die such a death each year, but only 6,000 actually become organ donors).

Yes. Each person receiving medical treatment is given the best medical care regardless of whether they may be a potential organ or tissue donor. It is only after all efforts to resuscitate a person fail, that organ donation is even considered.

A close blood relative, that is, a brother, sister, parent or child may be a suitable donor. Because of inherited genes, brothers and sisters may be a perfect match (see section on tissue typing). Parents and children have at least half match and so are better matched than a cadaver kidney. It is necessary for donor and patient to have compatible blood and tissue type. However, sexes of the donor and patient do not have to match.

The first priority for medical personnel is to save the lives of their patients. The hospital staff does not have access to registry information. Organ and tissue donation is not even discussed until every life saving option is exhausted and death has been declared or is imminent. The doctors and nurses at the medical center are completely separate from those who work for the organ and tissue recovery organizations. The hospital staff's main purpose is to save your life.

Most healthy women under the age of 30 shouldn't worry about infertility unless they've been trying to get pregnant for at least a year. At this point, women should talk to their doctors about a fertility evaluation. Men should also talk to their doctors if this much time has passed. In some cases, women should talk to their doctors sooner. Women in their 30s who've been trying to get pregnant for six months should speak to their doctors as soon as possible.

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The best way to indicate your wish to donate is to sign up on the Gift of Life Organ, Tissue & Eye Donor Registry (giftoflifemichigan.org). The Donor Registry is searched upon every hospital death in Michigan, to determine if the deceased's donation wish is known. Public Act 67 of 2003 ensures that the donor's wish is paramount, with a signed document of gift (such as the Donor Registry).

Allows for specific planning of operation, i.e. the best time for donor and recipient and early (pre-operative) immuno-suppression.

That depends on the amount of damage. First, an assessment needs to be done. This will help determine if the health and safety of the tree has been compromised. The arborist can also make recommendations on how to proceed. Pruning and installing cabling and bracing are two alternatives. You also should keep the tree healthy by providing irrigation and fertilization if needed.

Yes! Your first Basic account is absolutely FREE, and includes unlimited access to Second Life's tools, events and communities. Additional Basic and Premium accounts cost $9.95 and will require payment information. You must be 18 years or older to join Second Life.

No they cannot. Unfortunately once a patient has been admitted into hospital, they automatically become the responsibility of the hospital. Only the hospital’s doctors and medical staff can that attend to that patient in hospital

NO… YOU will save YOUR life… with training anyone can learn to make the right decisions and react according to the threat, whether to fight back or run away, in the end it’s up to you.

If your HG is severe enough to justify steroids (see question and answer above) but your doctor objects to trying them, you could offer to provide him/her with references to research papers that prove their usefulness. Some of the most common references are listed in our Information and links for medical practitioners.

Anyone from birth to age 75 can become an organ or tissue donor. This is just a general age guideline for becoming a donor, however. Physicians will be asked to determine the possibility of donation at the appropriate time.

Donors are relatives or close friends with a significant emotional tie to the recipient. They must have a compatible blood type and body size, as determined by the recipient's height and weight. In addition, donors must be between the ages of 18 and 60. They must also test negative for active or chronic hepatitis B and C and can have no serious medical conditions such as diabetes, cancer or heart disease.

We don't really understand why, but we do know that those kids who feel hopeless or helpless just want the pain to go away. They have not had the life experiences that adults have, so the pain is real and appears to last forever. Talking about the pressures that teens experience today, and providing an open means of communication, could provide an avenue for youth to express their frustrations, rather than resorting to drastic forms of behavior.

Absolutely not. You will receive the same level of care whether or not your desire to be a donor has been specified. A transplant team does not become involved until other physicians have determined that death has occurred. In order to become an organ donor, brain death must be proven by a series of tests. Brain death is different than a coma--it is the irreversible cessation of all brain functions including the brain stem. No one can recover from brain death.

Yes, but once you have given your final consent and the patient has begun pretreatment conditioning the consequences of your withdrawal can be lethal to the patient.

Recent and past polls show that more than half the doctors are in favor of a universal health care system. Doctors recognize that this would free them from the administrative costs they now endure to bill and collect for health care they provide. Doctors main concern is that a system might negotiate unacceptable reimbursement rates, their prime example being our Medicaid rates. A system would have to guard against this.

Yes, since by definition a brain dead individual is on life support in an intensive care unit. The eyes can however be removed for 6 hours even after the heart stops beating and hence eyes can be removed if the individual dies at home. The donor’s family can contact the nearest eye bank at earliest.

Absolutely not. The doctors will undertake every known measure to save your life right till the end. Only when they have exhausted all ways and means to save your lives will the question of organ & tissue donation be discussed with your relatives.

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That's fine; in fact most people do. We offer a FREE Coaching 'Taster' session to give you the experience first hand. This is usually a 30 minute scheduled telephone session or face to face where applicable.

We provide rehabilitation services consisting of mainly physiotherapy services. Speech therapy and occupational therapy on an as needed basis. We can provide in patient physiotherapy services at the acute hospital itself, if your hospital allows it. We can follow up our services on an outpatient basis at our centre on discharge from the hospital, when the medical condition of the patient is stable.

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