Organ & Tissue Donation: An Opportunity to Make A Difference
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Organ & Tissue Donation:An Opportunity to Make A Difference
Ray Gabel, BACommunity Educator
Midwest Transplant Network
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Midwest Transplant Network Services
• Organ Donation/Referral
• Tissue Donation/Referrals
• Professional Education• Community Education• Donor Family Aftercare• Transplant Team Fly
out/support
Headquarters
Satellite Offices
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Distribution of Organs• United Network for Organ Sharing
– LocalRegionalNational• Blood type• Height and weight• Status: “How sick is the patient?”• Length of waiting time• HLA matching (kidney and
pancreas)
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Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation
Fact . . .• Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States
are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant.• Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area.
• In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants.
• In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors.• Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed
annually.
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The “Other” Waiting List
• 26 Million asthma suffers• 3 Million with emphysema• 17 Million diabetics• 12 Million with heart disease• 30,000 Children and adults with CF• 20 Million with arthritis• 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women)
Source: IIAM 2006
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Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation, NKF
Fact . . .
• Every 11 minutes a new name is added to the national waiting list.
• An average of 18 people die each day in this country because an organ donor did not become available in time.
• 12% of the U.S. population is African American, 35% of patients awaiting kidney transplants are African American
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Distribution of Organs• United Network for Organ Sharing
– LocalRegionalNational• Blood type• Height and weight• Status: “How sick is the patient?”• Length of waiting time• HLA matching (kidney and
pancreas)
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Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation
Fact . . .• Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States
are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant.• Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area.
• In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants.
• In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors.• Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed
annually.
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The “Other” Waiting List
• 26 Million asthma suffers• 3 Million with emphysema• 17 Million diabetics• 12 Million with heart disease• 30,000 Children and adults with CF• 20 Million with arthritis• 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women)
Source: IIAM 2006
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RESOURCE: DONATE LIFE AMERICA
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Fact . . .
• One organ and tissue donor can help more than 50 people.
TissueOrgan
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Lung Transplant Waiting List
• 12% death rate per year• 40-50% of those identified as suitable
transplant canidates will die from underlying disease before suitable organ is available
• 2 deaths occur on the waiting list for every 3 patients transplanted
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How does it affect us in the Midwest?