Sentences with phrase «eligible organ donors»

New research shows wide variation in the number of eligible organ donors whose loved ones consent to organ donation across the country.

Not exact matches

Only 28 percent of eligible New Yorkers are enrolled to be an organ donor.

The researchers examined data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to 2013.

The combo is then injected into people who have been declared brain dead — M. D. Anderson patients who often wished to be organ donors but weren't eligible, so their families agreed to this study instead — to see which blood vessels the peptide hooks up to.

The researchers note that these data alone do not capture all potential deceased organ donors in the U.S., as the current definition of an eligible death excludes potential donors over age 70, and those classified as a «donation after cardiac death» donor, both of which broaden the pool of available donors.