Who can be an organ donor?
All individuals can indicate their intent to donate (person younger than 18 year of age must have a parent's or guardian consent) Medical suitability for donation is determined at the time of death. People with HIV, actively brain cancer, certain severe, current infections can not be an organ donor its to risky.
How does someone become an organ donor?
Someone can become an organ donor by signing up on a website or in your local hospital. In addition someone can become an organ donor when getting their driver license.
How do doctors decide who gets the organ?
Recipient are allocate on a waiting list. A recipient may wait over a year to get a transplant. Doctors will take blood and tissue test that will be used to match you with a donor. This is because your immune system may see the new organ a foreign and reject it. The more matches you have with the donor the more likely your body will accept the donor organ.
Can you buy organs in America? Why does America have this law?
In America you can't buy or sell organs. Under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA), any individual convicted of buying or selling humans organs faces a five-year prison sentence and/ora hefty fine. Since the language of the law explicitly states that it is a crimes for an individual to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer" a human organ, it allows safe harbor for those who unknowingly receive an illegally procured organ.
All individuals can indicate their intent to donate (person younger than 18 year of age must have a parent's or guardian consent) Medical suitability for donation is determined at the time of death. People with HIV, actively brain cancer, certain severe, current infections can not be an organ donor its to risky.
How does someone become an organ donor?
Someone can become an organ donor by signing up on a website or in your local hospital. In addition someone can become an organ donor when getting their driver license.
How do doctors decide who gets the organ?
Recipient are allocate on a waiting list. A recipient may wait over a year to get a transplant. Doctors will take blood and tissue test that will be used to match you with a donor. This is because your immune system may see the new organ a foreign and reject it. The more matches you have with the donor the more likely your body will accept the donor organ.
Can you buy organs in America? Why does America have this law?
In America you can't buy or sell organs. Under the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA), any individual convicted of buying or selling humans organs faces a five-year prison sentence and/ora hefty fine. Since the language of the law explicitly states that it is a crimes for an individual to "knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer" a human organ, it allows safe harbor for those who unknowingly receive an illegally procured organ.