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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them.</p><p>CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/organdonors/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">cbsnews.com/organdonors/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/hospitals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hospitals</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/transplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transplants</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/OrganTransplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganTransplants</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/donors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donors</span></a></p>
VoidedMike<p>I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease. I urgently need a living kidney donor. If you or someone you know is willing to help, please visit <a href="https://www.nkr.org/PZG643" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nkr.org/PZG643</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. Every share brings me closer to a second chance at life! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KidneyDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KidneyDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESKD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESKD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonateLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonateLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GiveLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiveLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShareYourSpare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShareYourSpare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeADonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeADonor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transplant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalMiracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalMiracle</span></a></p>
VoidedMike<p>I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease. I urgently need a living kidney donor. My blood type is A+. If you or someone you know is willing to help, please visit <a href="https://www.nkr.org/PZG643" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nkr.org/PZG643</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. Every share brings me closer to a second chance at life! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KidneyDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KidneyDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESKD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESKD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonateLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonateLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GiveLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiveLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ShareYourSpare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShareYourSpare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeADonor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeADonor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transplant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalMiracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalMiracle</span></a></p>
Winston Chiong<p>Announcing an upcoming panel on probably the most active controversy in <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/bioethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioethics</span></a> that people outside medicine (and many within) haven't heard of, <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ta</span></a>-NRP for <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/organdonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organdonation</span></a>. (We're facing decisions about this at <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/UCSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCSF</span></a> and many other hospitals are also considering their policies.) This is a method for increasing the quantity and quality of organs available for transplantation, but which many critics believe violates the dead donor rule. In ta-NRP circulatory death of the donor is declared, after which perfusion is restored to thoracic and abdominal organs while brain perfusion is (we think) surgically prevented. Ta-NRP is performed in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and in some centers in the US; is contrary to guidelines in Canada, Australia, and NZ; and has been paused in Belgium and the UK pending further study. </p><p>At <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Neuroethics2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroethics2025</span></a> in Munich next month we'll host a panel, International Controversies over ta-NRP for Organ Procurement: Brain Perfusion and the Dead Donor Rule, including panelists to share key perspectives from three countries where ta-NRP has been performed, critiquing different conceptions of the role of the brain in circulatory death and how national professional and public norms affect views of this procedure: </p><ul><li>Karola Kreitmair (Univ. of Wisconsin, US) is a philosopher whose work addresses philosophical arguments regarding ta-NRP and the dead donor rule. </li><li>Amelia Hessheimer (Hosp. Univ. La Paz, Spain) is a transplant surgeon and co-author of the European Society for Organ Transplantation's consensus statement on NRP. </li><li>Alex Manara (N. Bristol NHS Trust, UK) is an intensivist and author of an influential early analysis on ta-NRP and the dead donor rule. </li></ul><p><a href="https://neuroethicssociety.org/posts/international-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neuroethicssociety.org/posts/i</span><span class="invisible">nternational-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/neuroethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroethics</span></a></p>
PapyrusBrigade<p>(2/2) As Steve Boots points out, there are massive ethical issues around homeless people being organ donors:</p><p>- Can someone in a desperate situation really provide free informed consent?<br>- Did they sign their organ donor card?<br>- Did they have someone who could advocate for them? <br>- They can donate but not receive organs</p><p><a href="https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMhxSJKXo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vm.tiktok.com/ZMhxSJKXo/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a></p>
AlsoPaisleyCat<p>‘The Gosling Effect’ isn’t about Ryan, the Canadian actor.</p><p>It’s about the power of altruism, and the impact of Kevin Gosling, an ordinary Canadian who made a decision to make an anonymous donation of a part of his liver. His persistence changed the health care system and the way unrelated organ donors are viewed.</p><p>He is however an uncle to Ryan, in the very large Gosling extended family.</p><p>A comprehensive feature from The Ottawa Citizen reports on the transformative impact of Kevin Gosling and the others donors for whom he cleared the path.</p><p>‘A total of 2,936 organ transplants were performed in Canada in 2022. Eighty per cent of those transplants used deceased donor organs and 20 per cent used living donor organs. Fifty-two per cent of those living donors were related to the recipient. Forty-eight per cent were unrelated. . .</p><p>. . . And yet, outside of Canada, there is still a lack of understanding of how someone can be willing to give part of their organ to a complete stranger.</p><p>Dr. Nazia Selzner, who is the medical director of the live donor liver transplantation program at UHN, said she is frequently asked when he travels the world: “What is wrong with these people that they want to help someone else and go through a major surgery?”’</p><p><a href="https://ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-gosling-effect" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ottawacitizen.com/feature/the-</span><span class="invisible">gosling-effect</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Altruism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Altruism</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Good" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Good</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/GoodDeeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodDeeds</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/RyanGosling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RyanGosling</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OrganDonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonors</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCare</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Liver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liver</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Kidney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kidney</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/HealthCareSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCareSystem</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Caring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caring</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Altruistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Altruistic</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Selflessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selflessness</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kindness</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>The case of the nearly 7,000 missing pancreases<br><a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/367812/organ-donation-loophole-pancreas-opo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/future-perfect/367812/</span><span class="invisible">organ-donation-loophole-pancreas-opo</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pancreas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pancreas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrganPrucurement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganPrucurement</span></a></p>
Wonderdog<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@MarkAsser" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MarkAsser</span></a></span> Adding to this - please make sure any <a href="https://bne.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> wishes and documents are current! You can note it in your Australian Medicare stuff. And again, in <a href="https://bne.social/tags/AdvancedCareDirective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdvancedCareDirective</span></a> or <a href="https://bne.social/tags/AdvancedCarePlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdvancedCarePlan</span></a> . Often, time is of the essence when decisions have to be made for donation, obviously.</p>
Tywyll Seren<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vmst.io/@DanMorgan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DanMorgan</span></a></span> <br>It’s a beautiful story. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/organdonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organdonation</span></a></p>
Carolyn Barber, MD<p>What’s one of the most generous things&nbsp;you could do right now that could save up to 8 PEOPLE’S LIVES &amp; require only 5 min of your time? And, it costs nothing...</p><p>Become an organ donor. When you're dead, you're dead:) Be a hero—sign up, now: <a href="https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">organdonor.gov/sign-up</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>More than 100K people are on the transplant waiting list &amp; 17 people die a day while waiting for an organ. Let’s change these stats! Pls repost. <br><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/organdonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organdonation</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/organ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organ</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transplant</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/savealife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>savealife</span></a></p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>"Your loved one checked the box to be an organ donor at the DMV. Now they're dead. What happens?"</p><p>Salon has a fascinating report: "When does death begin? And what do we do when it looks uncannily like life?"</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/TvsgVJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/TvsgVJ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Tu Thanh Ha<p>People who died from a drug overdose accounted for more than one-third of deceased organ donors in Alberta in 2022 – a significant jump from four years ago as the province confronts record high <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/opioid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opioid</span></a> deaths.<br>...Jim Kutsogiannis, a professor of critical care medicine at the University of Alberta, said that while the donor pool needs to be expanded, doing so from drug overdose victims is not desirable and “nothing to be proud of”<br><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-number-of-organ-donors-who-died-of-an-overdose-spikes-over-four-years/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theglobeandmail.com/canada/alb</span><span class="invisible">erta/article-number-of-organ-donors-who-died-of-an-overdose-spikes-over-four-years/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Overdose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Overdose</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fentanyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fentanyl</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>Transplant Board: U.S. Should Screen At-Risk Organ Donors for Chagas<br>==</p><p>Last week, ProPublica reported on the death of Bob Naedele, who passed after he received an infected heart; his death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested for Chagas. </p><p>The policy change comes after years of recommendations from experts for screening to prevent such deaths.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCare</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Chagas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chagas</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transplant</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/organ-procurement-transplantation-network-donor-chagas-screening?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/organ-p</span><span class="invisible">rocurement-transplantation-network-donor-chagas-screening?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>Organ Transplant Patients Can Die When Donors Aren't Screened for This Parasitic Disease<br>==</p><p>Bob Naedele died after receiving a heart from a donor with Chagas disease. </p><p>His death could have been prevented if the donor had been tested. The group that governs U.S. transplant policies is considering mandatory screening of at-risk donors.</p><p>New, by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@carolinechen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>carolinechen</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCare</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OrganDonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonation</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/OrganDonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrganDonors</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Transplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transplant</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Patients" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patients</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/transplant-patients-risk-chagas-unscreened-organ-donors?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/transpl</span><span class="invisible">ant-patients-risk-chagas-unscreened-organ-donors?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>