Sentences with phrase «increasing organ donor»

«Efforts to increase organ donor consent rates by all parties should be a major focus of the transplant community and the general public,» Goldberg said.

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These could occur when, in order to increase the availability of organs for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the death of the donor.»

To the contrary, in 1994 research carried out by Nottingham University and the King's Fund concluded that the introduction of assumed consent was unlikely to result in a significant increase in donor organs.

Several political options are being considered to increase the number of donor organs.

One example of these occurs «when, in order to increase the availability of organs for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the death of the donor.»

Senator David Carlucci said, «Lauren's Law has significantly helped increase the number of registered organ donors in our state, which means thousands waiting on donor lists may get a vital organ sooner.

The Executive Order directed the Department of Health to work with the Transplant Council, Donate Life New York State, health care providers, and hospital systems licensed to provide organ transplant services in order to develop opportunities to increase the number of registered organ donors in the state.

«I commend Governor Cuomo for taking these important steps today to complement the Senate's ongoing efforts to raise public awareness and direct resources to increase the number of life - saving organ donors in the state.

They also debunk myths about organ donations, and talk about efforts to increase the number of organ donors in New York state.

He says he hopes the campaign will increase the number of organ and tissue donors in the county by 30 percent.

By enacting legislation that lowers that age of donors, New York is following the example of 47 other states in opens the state organ donor registry to younger adults in the hopes of increasing enrollment rates.

In honor of National «Donate Life» month Erie County has launched a year - long campaign to increase the number of organ and tissue donors in New York State.

Parents also recognized major benefits of having their child registered as an organ donor, including having their preferences known in advance (51 percent), having an opportunity for their child to help other children (70 percent), and increasing the number of child - sized organs for transplant (67 percent).

By passively cooling deceased organ donor body temperature by approximately two degrees from normal body temperature, researchers saw an overall nearly 40 percent increase in the successful function of donated kidneys after surgery.

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.

«This is critical because the number of available deceased organ donors has been stagnant, but the demand has dramatically increased.

«Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors improves organ function in kidney transplant: Finding could increase overall organ availability.»

Fourteen of the 58 donor service areas offered 129 or fewer kidneys in 2009, so if some organs are shared more broadly, then the expected increase in transplants could represent the addition of a small - to medium - sized donor service area.

Their work has been avidly followed by biologists in the field of organ transplantation: If a donor's heart or kidney could be frozen and stored without damage, physicians could dramatically increase the number of transplants they perform.

If countries want to increase transplant rates, and so increase survival from kidney failure, they might consider changing the way they source donor organs.»

We continuously evaluate new technologies for treating heart, liver, lung, and kidney disease in order to provide the highest level of care for patients who need transplants, and we're investigating novel ways to increase the number of healthy donor organs so that we can help more people.

«One challenge to increasing the number of living organ liver transplants is donor ambivalence,» explains lead researchers Dr. Li - Chueh Weng with the School of Nursing, College of Medicine at Chang Gung University and Dr. Wei - Chen Lee with the Transplant Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.

He also wants to expand the use of new technology such as normothermic perfusion that can rejuvenate donor organs by circulating warm, oxygenated solution through them prior to transplantation, improving their viability and greatly increasing the number of available donor organs.