first successful kidney transplant in Boston. Since then‚ medical science has concentrated on organ donation as a way of replacing a recipient ’s dysfunctional organ with that of a healthy donor organ. TYPES OF ORGAN DONATION The organs that can be donated include: Heart Patients with severe heart failure who cannot be helped any longer with medication and/or surgery may benefit from a heart transplant. Liver Patients with liver failure may benefit from a liver transplant. Pancreas Patients
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Ethics Paper Week 5 ETHC 445 Today a decision needs to be made. We have three patients who are in dire need of a heart transplant and there is only one heart available. Decisions like this are never easy to make and there is no right answer‚ because no matter the choice there will be two people left with little hope to live. However it is my duty and my responsibility to make that choice in a timely manner so that someone may benefit from the heart that is available
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Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University. (2007‚ January 8). Introduction. Retrieved January 8‚ 2007 from http://camy.org/research/statelaws0403/ The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University USC.(2006). Risk factors for alcoholic liver disease. Retrieved January‚13 2006 from http://www.surgery.usc.edu/divisions/ hep/livernewsletter.
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Like the newest game‚ movie‚ or maybe that expensive bag that everyone else has. What if it was something that you couldn’t live without? Like a heart‚ liver‚ lungs‚ or kidneys II. Today I will be talking about become an organ donor III The reason I can speak about this is because my father has kidney failure and needs a kidney transplant I will donate one of my kidneys to him I have also done some research and would like to share this information with you IV. I will first talk about what
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encountered in the cardiovascular system‚ the nervous system and the liver. In these three areas the damage may eventually prove fatal. Living the life of an alcoholic is hard work - the body suffers. There is complete unanimity of opinion that alcoholic drinking is very bad for the heart. Not only does the alcoholic suffer increased risk of heart disease‚ but he may also sustain direct damage to the heart from alcohol. Alcoholic drinking results in: Increased lipid levels which may result in arteriosclerosis
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What organ donation is and how it works I. Organ donation takes healthy organs and tissues from one person for transplantation into another. Organs you can donate include: kidneys‚ heart‚ liver‚ pancreas‚ intestines‚ lungs‚ skin‚ bone‚ bone marrow‚ and cornea (the front part of the eye). (medlineplus) II. Organ donations usually occur for patients with kidney failure‚ heart
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Your kidneys? Your liver? It’s a matter of life and death. If you had designated on your driver’s license or carried some other means to communicate your decision to be an organ donor‚ your friend’s life could have been saved. Signing up to be an organ donor is one of the most generous things you can do — especially when you consider that a single donor can potentially save eight lives. That’s eight people who won’t have to spend agonizing months or years on the transplant waiting list‚ who will
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the practice is wholly illegal and secretive. 2. Price of organ Here is the price of each organ in illegal organ transaction. Pair of eyeballs $1525‚ scalp $607‚ skull with teeth $1200‚ shoulder $500‚ coronary artery $1525‚ heart $119000‚ liver $157000‚ hand and forearm $385‚ pint of blood $337‚ spleen $508‚ stomach $508‚ small intestine $ 2519‚ kidney $15000-40000‚ gallbladder $1219‚ skin $10 per square inch. Those prices are the average price at organ black market in America. Sum of all
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of this disorder are: * Drinking alcoholic beverages. * Having alcoholic substances. What organ it effects? It affects several organs. For example: * Brain: Drinking a large amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain. It can lead to the hepatic encephalopathy that is known as a fatal brain disorder. * Liver: Basically‚ in taking of alcohol means in taking of toxins. Liver tries to get rid of these toxins by breaking them but the liver turns out fatty. Alcohol results in
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How the technology affects the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer? Abstract As the technology world grieves figuring visionary and Apple‚ Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs‚ it ’s worth taking a closer look at the disease he publicly battled. This paper will discuss the detailed and information about pancreatic cancer and how the technology helps to detect‚ prevent and cure the disease. This paper will show different statistics of pancreatic cancer at different stages of the cancer. American Cancer Society
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