Boulet had signed up to
become an organ donor on his 21st birthday, and his organs went to six people.
Not exact matches
The campaign will take place at Auto Bureau's across the county, where specialists trained by Upstate New York Transplant Services or Unyts will be
on hand to help people understand how to
become an
organ donor.
Based
on the results, researchers suggest two new metrics, which should be standardized, for measuring OPO performance: evaluating donation percentage — the percentage of possible deceased -
donors who
become actual
donors — and tracking
organs transplanted per possible
donor.
It is difficult to get spleen tissue from previously healthy
donors, so the team needed to be
on call, ready to process the
organ whenever it
became available.