tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28621082841331712462024-03-04T21:35:46.944-08:00Organ and Tissue Donation Blog℠Finding Inspiration in Unexpected PlacesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25458125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-5435587600912216732022-11-22T10:56:00.002-08:002022-11-22T10:56:39.256-08:00TOSA, LifeGift, and LifeShare Conduct First-Time Uncrewed Aerial Transport of Organs and Blood Between Lubbock, Oklahoma City, and San Antonio<p><span style="font-family: arial;">TEXAS ORGAN SHARING</span></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-size: 18.004999px; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Groundbreaking Technology Aims to Improve Transport of Donated Organs and Tissues By Use of Drones in Rural Areas to Overcome Patient Inequities.</span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></h3><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPTa87Bfre2ihoC_80VsnwLgJhSvoSZh6Nluw7RUszAro11rw6peSPE_AWX0TtDy5qSHoZ-KCueqFznkzJ3K4kCsDR9vH1I779aROHRhOOvUA0CCUtw6w0F9XuShGpWL7rZoWyT7N0ik2cf_6FtVZFUS1LAone-BSPXHtweVXxpbtuw9fhrHFUtdXcw/s300/05b77eeef30cf88983d89bb4615c075a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="300" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPTa87Bfre2ihoC_80VsnwLgJhSvoSZh6Nluw7RUszAro11rw6peSPE_AWX0TtDy5qSHoZ-KCueqFznkzJ3K4kCsDR9vH1I779aROHRhOOvUA0CCUtw6w0F9XuShGpWL7rZoWyT7N0ik2cf_6FtVZFUS1LAone-BSPXHtweVXxpbtuw9fhrHFUtdXcw/w640-h501/05b77eeef30cf88983d89bb4615c075a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(110, 119, 128); color: #6e7780; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Uncrewed Aerial System transportation is a technological breakthrough that could improve organ recovery, allocation, and transportation to ensure patients, especially in rural areas of South Texas, receive the precious Gift of Life.</div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(110, 119, 128); color: #6e7780; font-family: "YahooSans VF", "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">(San Antonio – November 16th, 2022) – Texas Organ Sharing Alliance (TOSA), the non-profit serving 56 counties in Central and South Texas, LifeGift in Houston, Texas, and LifeShare in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, have joined forces with the Matador Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) Consortium, co-developed by Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) and 2THEDGE, LLC., to conduct uncrewed aerial transport (UAS) testing the ability to successfully move organs and blood between Lubbock, Oklahoma City, and San Antonio. The test took place on Tuesday, November 15th, with the UAS flight originating at Lubbock’s Texas Tech University Reese Technology Center, proceeding a distance of 350 miles to Oklahoma City, and then traveling 471 miles to San Antonio.<br /><br />This is the first time that donated organs were transported this far a distance by an aerial system that was operated using robotic technology. The Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) transported a donated human liver, kidney, and pancreas between the three cities. Although there was a pilot on board per FAA regulations, the plane was flown entirely by technology onboard. The organs were donated for clinical research and were not transplanted following the flight demonstration.<br /><br />The three organ procurement organizations’ proposed use of this ground-breaking UAS technology aims to improve the transport of donated organs and tissues in rural areas to better serve patients. <b><i><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/tosa-lifegift-lifeshare-conduct-first-183400264.html" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-17765817701825424862022-11-22T10:45:00.003-08:002022-11-22T10:45:34.366-08:00Two Leading Mid-Atlantic Organ Procurement Organizations Announce Merger<p><span style="font-family: arial;">THE LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">NEWS RELEASE</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Washington Regional Transplant Community and The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland will serve over 9 million people in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C.</span></span></h3></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEA7cz7PBJ8N0qopDSjvr180VyY-qAwtbakpXi0Dc9-dX0OxonMMpAAlUuop2sKdGGbwqhYRd72lF5_NwtxlvrBS4jwpCupV_hCwYDxMrr1aPzCDyqkDkGwNZ7ITZzS9o5ihwAaJJtuLbdVm0i0lgzi3JOlNwNCWg9i-0jiR_RZTvC-ByBXqqb113zw/s1654/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2010.37.06%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1654" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEA7cz7PBJ8N0qopDSjvr180VyY-qAwtbakpXi0Dc9-dX0OxonMMpAAlUuop2sKdGGbwqhYRd72lF5_NwtxlvrBS4jwpCupV_hCwYDxMrr1aPzCDyqkDkGwNZ7ITZzS9o5ihwAaJJtuLbdVm0i0lgzi3JOlNwNCWg9i-0jiR_RZTvC-ByBXqqb113zw/w640-h376/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2010.37.06%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="media__caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The CEO of the Living Legacy Foundation, Charlie Alexander, will lead the combined nonprofit if a merger between the Baltimore organ donation organization and a northern Virginia nonprofit is approved.</span></span></p><p class="media__byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">COURTESY OF THE LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION</span></p><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC), the nonprofit organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and three counties in suburban Maryland, and The Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland (The LLF), the OPO whose service area includes 20 counties in Maryland and the city of Baltimore, recently announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the organizations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Both OPOs entered this process proactively, with each organization in a position of exceptional strength both clinically and financially. As the federal regulatory landscape continues to shift for OPOs, this decision reflects an exceptional opportunity to bring together collective expertise, resources, and offerings, to provide people in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. with improved donation and transplant services.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">“We are thrilled about what this merger will mean for our hospital and community partners, donor families and the transplant recipients we serve,” said Lori E. Brigham, WRTC President & Chief Executive Officer. "Our organizations already enjoy an excellent working relationship today through shared services like our call center for donor referrals and tissue services, and joining together is a natural next step.” <b><i><a href="https://www.thellf.org/fileadmin/media/documents/WRTC__LLF_Merger_News_Release_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-89749876929010303552022-11-22T10:34:00.003-08:002022-11-22T10:34:44.651-08:00After receiving life-saving liver transplant, Aiea man hopes to inspire organ donors<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">HAWAII NEWS NOW | Eddie Dowd</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52uHdwkinDiAp1dKLbAg4updt1FofvbcRDDZ6I7vsn2viXrGZV0f8gJwkwFX_WXRvX2-75A6FVLCz2XMjmq6a2QAAfq8HugQYL-J0OvF1qM1COr75VEOAr5-2tbwLjdjLZbGCfAj3x5teC_lY5THodRhRSY-4fqbdeSpstxULRhaymumYI1GD6scDkA/s1824/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2010.20.16%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1824" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52uHdwkinDiAp1dKLbAg4updt1FofvbcRDDZ6I7vsn2viXrGZV0f8gJwkwFX_WXRvX2-75A6FVLCz2XMjmq6a2QAAfq8HugQYL-J0OvF1qM1COr75VEOAr5-2tbwLjdjLZbGCfAj3x5teC_lY5THodRhRSY-4fqbdeSpstxULRhaymumYI1GD6scDkA/w640-h370/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%2010.20.16%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(108, 117, 125); color: #6c757d; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 14.4px;">The Queens Medical Center is celebrating 10 years of organ transplants but the work continues with more than 600 people in the Pacific Rim on the waitlist.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(108, 117, 125); color: #6c757d; font-family: "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Queens Medical Center is celebrating 10 years of organ transplants but the work continues with more than 600 people in the Pacific Rim on the waitlist.</span></p><div><p data-reader-unique-id="2" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Reyn Kimura was just one of the people on that waitlist.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="3" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Last April, the Aiea man was waiting for a liver transplant.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At age 35, Kimura’s health was rapidly declining.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="10" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I just wanted to call it quits,” said Kimura. “I said, I’m done.”</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="11" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After months in the hospital holding on for his life, Kimura received the blessing he had been praying for, doctors had found him a donor</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="12" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Kimura not only walks these days. He bikes, he hikes, he travels.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="13" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On Tuesday, he joined The Queen’s Organ Transplant Center to mark its 10th anniversary and inspire people to become an organ donor. <b><i><a href="https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/11/16/after-receiving-life-saving-liver-transplant-aiea-man-hopes-inspire-organ-donors/" target="_blank">Continue reading & Video</a></i></b></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-26681413948597164082022-11-22T09:22:00.001-08:002022-11-22T09:22:15.377-08:00On Giving Tuesday, show gratitude to those who gave the gift of life through organ, eye, and tissue donation!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">DONATE LIFE ROSE PARADE FLOAT</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nERAmESu7sgE4BVL0_0JRtNoc3S9j8pLhIrwiLAj_cDPNoqv-jQMtysxO0ep79QW8ag0FdDtnEWFoxbCvnptPkot1ge55YvmIHi6p27P9EyNZrPK6bxIj6wqs2ayWY-12-Uh2HmPl6RcN83N_FYY97govwebOiYmDyNbKtitl9UEWZO5i3HNfz4vQg/s806/Rose%20Dedication%20Special%20Giving%20Tuesday.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="799" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nERAmESu7sgE4BVL0_0JRtNoc3S9j8pLhIrwiLAj_cDPNoqv-jQMtysxO0ep79QW8ag0FdDtnEWFoxbCvnptPkot1ge55YvmIHi6p27P9EyNZrPK6bxIj6wqs2ayWY-12-Uh2HmPl6RcN83N_FYY97govwebOiYmDyNbKtitl9UEWZO5i3HNfz4vQg/w634-h640/Rose%20Dedication%20Special%20Giving%20Tuesday.png" width="634" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">On </span><span style="color: #c8460d; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">Giving Tuesday</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">,</span><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;"> show gratitude</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">to those who gave the gift of life</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">through organ, eye, and tissue donation!</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #258d23; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honor your loved ones on the Donate Life </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #258d23; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose Parade Float with a $20 rose dedication</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; 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font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">We are thankful for our Donate Life and OneLegacy family and friends in this season of gratitude!</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-70948736829409309602022-11-22T08:56:00.002-08:002022-11-22T08:56:27.709-08:00Ohio veteran helping burn victims in Ukraine as an organ donor<p><span style="font-family: arial;">NBC 24 NEWS | By NBC 24 Staff</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMis9f9-EX6ns5kaH3Pk3VvZ9jO6eCMVTAkYWKRcrljEMnMLMxXlK8nBcTBu3XDe1GspqWlGYNkaZDejiZykHrIXuShpclkJjGFSbn4udJwj_UmaoaBLwkqtb9_g1m2AvA5khGaR8tWRNjK5_NDCaRt2jABgGaN3CgasqqBJotEpufrolpD-1E3Q0wYQ/s1316/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%208.50.16%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1316" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMis9f9-EX6ns5kaH3Pk3VvZ9jO6eCMVTAkYWKRcrljEMnMLMxXlK8nBcTBu3XDe1GspqWlGYNkaZDejiZykHrIXuShpclkJjGFSbn4udJwj_UmaoaBLwkqtb9_g1m2AvA5khGaR8tWRNjK5_NDCaRt2jABgGaN3CgasqqBJotEpufrolpD-1E3Q0wYQ/w640-h360/Screenshot%202022-11-22%20at%208.50.16%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A veteran sergeant continues to serve even when completely immobilized.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Leonard Tate served in the U.S. Army for 21 years.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="6" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"He told me so many stories of how he stepped in trenches and how he had to save so many children from being bombed in Afghanistan," his daughter Jasmine Tate said. "He really did a great job, and he loved serving in the military."</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="7" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, as an organ donor, one more act of service will go to help Ukrainian burn victims.</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="35" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"I'm very proud of my dad. My dad did a great thing and he's still continuing to do a great thing. He loved all of us. He was very loved by his family and he's leaving a great legacy behind."</span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="36" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center hosted an honor walk Wednesday as Tate was rolled through the halls with respect prior to the harvesting of his organs and skin cells which will be shipped to Ukraine. <b><i><a href="https://nbc24.com/news/local/ohio-veteran-posthumously-helping-burn-victims-in-ukraine-as-an-organ-donor" target="_blank">Continue reading - Video</a></i></b></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-72280056199765252562022-11-22T08:48:00.004-08:002022-11-22T08:48:42.872-08:00St. Pete high school football star who collapsed on the field to represent organ donation in Rose Parade<p><span style="font-family: arial;">FOX 13 TAMPA BAY | Kalley Tracy and Fox 13 News Staff</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kC6lbfuwYzIyKjmpNj5J0m6bOkEDNcWpk1oqLVbKKuokXHjaLthIZjLHHjpqVMOXhWDq1qojNsnYsBum9-pS2MPXtcuCrGefJdB18gNMJsU-YLl2dfSOHR7_LpEfw_eajODOV9TawsNrhMqK1Hm0f2EX6ejv2ze00kFJHCHkZPLfQopft2HwQz3EKA/s932/WTVT-Still-2022-11-16-15h31m44s361.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="932" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kC6lbfuwYzIyKjmpNj5J0m6bOkEDNcWpk1oqLVbKKuokXHjaLthIZjLHHjpqVMOXhWDq1qojNsnYsBum9-pS2MPXtcuCrGefJdB18gNMJsU-YLl2dfSOHR7_LpEfw_eajODOV9TawsNrhMqK1Hm0f2EX6ejv2ze00kFJHCHkZPLfQopft2HwQz3EKA/w640-h360/WTVT-Still-2022-11-16-15h31m44s361.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jaquez Welch"s family put the finishing touches on a floral portrait of the 18-year-old at Bayfront Health Wednesday.</span></div><p data-reader-unique-id="8" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span data-reader-unique-id="9" style="max-width: 100%;"><strong data-reader-unique-id="10" style="max-width: 100%;">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.</strong> - </span>An image of a St. Petersburg, high school football player will be seen across the country to draw attention to the importance of organ donation. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="13" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">On Wednesday, Jaquez Welch’s family put the finishing touches on a floral portrait of the 18-year-old at Bayfront Health, so it can be added to Donate Life’s float in the <a data-reader-unique-id="14" href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/political-skywriting-diverts-attention-at-rose-parade" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rose Parade</a> in January. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="43" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">Welch, who was a star football player for Northeast High School, collapsed on the field during a game in 2019. He died two weeks later from an undiagnosed and rare condition called an arteriovenous malformation, which causes bleeding in the brain. Doctors said Jacquez was most likely born with the condition that caused an abnormal connection between arteries and veins in the brain. </span></p><p data-reader-unique-id="45" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">"He made a 60-yard touchdown, and the next play is when he went down. So, he went out like a champ. Like, I couldn’t see it any other way - on the football field," shared his mother, Marcia Welch. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="47" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">Jacquez Welch’s kidney, pancreas, liver, lungs, and heart were donated to five separate people. <b><i><a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/st-pete-high-school-football-star-who-collapsed-on-the-field-to-represent-organ-donation-in-rose-parade" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></p><p data-reader-unique-id="47" style="caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.78); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><b><br /></b></p>
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Justine Ross/Michigan Medicine</div></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><div style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">American transplant centers as well as organ procurement organizations, the groups responsible for recovering organs from deceased donors in the United States, were less likely to accept or select organs from donors who were 70 years old when they died compared to those who were 69, new research found.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is an example of left digit bias, a common type of unconscious bias that involves placing value based on the first digit in a number and thus is often linked to ageism.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A previous study had revealed this type of bias is present when organizations decide whether or not to discard donor kidneys. Clare E. Jacobson, M.D., a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan Health, was curious about whether the bias would still exist if the research encompassed all organ types.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Donated organs are a lifesaving resource, but there are many more people on the waiting list than there are available organs,” said Jacobson, the co-first author of this study. “We were interested in looking at how we could make small changes to optimize our current supply of deceased donor organs, with the goal of both serving the patients on the waiting list and honoring the gift of life these donors are providing.” <b><i><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971601" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">JOURNAL: <span style="font-weight: normal;">The American Journal of Surgery</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>DOI</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.03.039" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank">10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.03.039 </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Article Title</b>: Left digit bias in selection and acceptance of deceased donor organs</span></div><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.03.039" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank"><span class="fa fa-sign-out" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></a></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-66392044205719228332022-11-21T09:53:00.005-08:002022-11-21T09:53:58.407-08:00A crash course in organ transplants helps Ukraine's cash-strapped healthcare system<p>NPR NEWS 88.9 | Daniel Ackerman</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONiJXu2Dr6exlXACvgu7gHyYK_3oXA0gllrRqR62crrAsizTxOStlLNvkRzV5km7ZtEHuwEfTF036mA9MlsD1pQ00ASbUOGOc-5Tu7sADe4ss4FLW9JNZMg-QQ0MSj46ZHA6M0oeHuERWvFWsusISD0SaZb9KrtMyospnW8TwjsGtJ_SzDVMHEVvWbw/s1600/melnitchouk-and-trainees-002--507f0c9bba8778e20bf4727f7447d5b5a0a041b8-s1600-c85.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONiJXu2Dr6exlXACvgu7gHyYK_3oXA0gllrRqR62crrAsizTxOStlLNvkRzV5km7ZtEHuwEfTF036mA9MlsD1pQ00ASbUOGOc-5Tu7sADe4ss4FLW9JNZMg-QQ0MSj46ZHA6M0oeHuERWvFWsusISD0SaZb9KrtMyospnW8TwjsGtJ_SzDVMHEVvWbw/w640-h480/melnitchouk-and-trainees-002--507f0c9bba8778e20bf4727f7447d5b5a0a041b8-s1600-c85.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Serguei Melnitchouk (center) of Massachusetts General Hospital is training Ukrainian surgeons Volodymyr Voitko (left) and Vitalii Sokolov (right) on how to perform heart and lung transplants so they can do them in their home country. Photo taken Nov. 17, 2022, at MGH.Daniel Ackerman/Daniel Ackerman</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">BOSTON — There's a rhythm to most surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston: the beep of a heart monitor, the surgeon's calls for "scalpel ... scissors ... clamp." But today, that rhythm sounds different. It's mixed with quiet chatter in Ukrainian.<br />The surgeon, Dr. Serguei Melnitchouk, is repairing a patient's leaky heart valve. He explains his technique to two observing doctors, both thoracic surgeons visiting from Feofaniya Clinical Hospital in Kyiv. They've traveled to Boston for a crash course in some of the most complex procedures in medicine: heart and lung transplants.<br /><br />Ukraine has long lacked a full-service organ transplant center. Previously, patients who needed a new set of lungs would travel abroad for the procedure, funded by the country's universal healthcare system. But that funding has been drained by Ukraine's war effort, and other countries have restricted foreigners' access to transplant services. So some Ukrainian patients are left without the chance for a life-saving transplant. The crash course at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) aims to change that. It will allow the Ukrainian doctors to open their own lung transplant center — giving patients hope for a better future, even amid the shadows of war. <b><i><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1135896209/a-crash-course-in-organ-transplants-helps-ukraines-cash-strapped-healthcare-syst" target="_blank">Continue Reading</a></i></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-24633939365572672592022-11-21T09:19:00.003-08:002022-11-21T09:19:32.538-08:00UToledo student honors friend by highlighting organ donation<p>NBC 24 NEWS | Sutton Dunnavant </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCVP60kkmsZqTrkpypUXi20a9rWAFXVB-YtBCfoJxYVANoIaGBClKjSmH6txw0VxQPLy8VflcFImitvepPau7yKYdzyMX3OmcW6vrdCKoOPy4IS8YEJWA1LdAFIkzQHg-ix1go37hz0DU89iQl2W3lB9Cd66sCeSMeL8gmnAC2HS7CRZ9YVB_YmWcpw/s1308/Screenshot%202022-11-21%20at%209.14.06%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1308" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCVP60kkmsZqTrkpypUXi20a9rWAFXVB-YtBCfoJxYVANoIaGBClKjSmH6txw0VxQPLy8VflcFImitvepPau7yKYdzyMX3OmcW6vrdCKoOPy4IS8YEJWA1LdAFIkzQHg-ix1go37hz0DU89iQl2W3lB9Cd66sCeSMeL8gmnAC2HS7CRZ9YVB_YmWcpw/w640-h364/Screenshot%202022-11-21%20at%209.14.06%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="dateline">TOLEDO, Ohio — </span>As a college student, something you don't think about on a daily basis is whether or not you're an organ donor.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Not many people want to think about donation," said Madison Giglio, the founder of Students for H.O.P.E. </span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But for Giglio, it is.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"No one wants to think about like death or anything but ultimately I'm like, you could save hundreds of lives through one person."</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Giglio's passion for organ donation came after she lost her best friend Maddie Grobmeier in 2019. The two had been at a Shawn Mendes concert together when Grobmeier suffered an asthma attack.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Grobmeier passed away three days later. It was a moment that changed Giglio’s life forever.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"It was kind of like unreal and like, in the moment it was like this can't be happening," Giglio said.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As an organ donor, Grobmeier went on to save lives. Seeing Grobmeier living on in others inspired Giglio to talk about organ donation.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the Fall of 2020, Giglio started the first Students for H.O.P.E. organization at the University of Toledo.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"After going through her and seeing donation first hand I was like this is something I’m really passionate about and I think other people need to know about."</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Students for H.O.P.E. focuses on educating students about organ donation. Thinking about whether you’ll donate your organs or not while still in college can be uncomfortable and most people Giglio runs into aren’t organ donors. <b><i><a href="https://nbc24.com/news/local/utoledo-student-honors-friend-by-highlighting-organ-donation" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 26px 0px;"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-15911283108309986292022-11-21T09:08:00.003-08:002022-11-21T09:08:37.438-08:00Southeast Georgia Health System Recipient of Platinum Level LifeLink of Georgia Award<p>SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM <span> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29yn6HP7NvHPCnZPG4PrhvsD_0KxqveoUcx6Dl-zMT4srzusZ3IDsAeEPSec90A1W5gDcJvmZezzH49k_ZmbeqVq3p9bx9dtFvyyv1ZC6qxsoIBrMz_NTKqQ4rtzr3VnFP23bdrz14hEm6AXrG8diNWmRPKBxbeU8hKtaLyb1IQ7zKIqAxMzQ3DAytg/s400/IMG_9621-LifeLink-Recognition-2022%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="400" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29yn6HP7NvHPCnZPG4PrhvsD_0KxqveoUcx6Dl-zMT4srzusZ3IDsAeEPSec90A1W5gDcJvmZezzH49k_ZmbeqVq3p9bx9dtFvyyv1ZC6qxsoIBrMz_NTKqQ4rtzr3VnFP23bdrz14hEm6AXrG8diNWmRPKBxbeU8hKtaLyb1IQ7zKIqAxMzQ3DAytg/w640-h468/IMG_9621-LifeLink-Recognition-2022%5B1%5D.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 46); color: #2c2c2e; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The <a href="https://www.sghs.org/About-Us/Brunswick-Campus.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00678f; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick</a> and Camden campuses have once again received platinum-level recognition from LifeLink™ of Georgia for their efforts to increase organ and tissue donation awareness. This is the fifth consecutive year the Health System has been recognized for its efforts. In 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Health System earned platinum level recognition, and in 2018, gold-level recognition.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 46); color: #2c2c2e; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Organ and tissue donation provides the gift of life to hundreds of thousands of people each year through heart, kidney, lung, liver, pancreas, or intestine transplants,” says Jan Jones, RN, BSN, director of Patient Care Services. “Without the generosity of donors, the patients waiting for those vital organs will die. Our efforts to spread organ and tissue donation awareness is just a small piece of a very large puzzle to help save lives.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 46); color: #2c2c2e; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In addition to organ transplants, donations include tissues, such as bone, tendons, skin, heart valves, and corneas.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 46); color: #2c2c2e; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Not many people think of tissues when they think of being a donor, but burn victims may need skin grafts to heal,” Jones explains. “Athletes suffering from sports injuries may need a tendon to continue playing, and patients with damaged or diseased eyes can see again thanks to corneal transplants. Incredibly, one organ and tissue donor can actually save or enhance the lives of more than 75 people.” <b><i><a href="https://www.sghs.org/News-Center/2022/November/Southeast-Georgia-Health-System-Recipient-of-Pla.aspx" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-76737965134549900332022-11-21T09:03:00.002-08:002022-11-21T09:03:28.760-08:00Phoebe CEO signs Rose Dedication for annual Rose Parade<p> FOX 31 | TyTierra Grant </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURhRkWq2yxUkK8c9NoV30o8Ok4OWA0Jr5FQeK4S5USzaFgzBOIjBvY1O2XpI0ySZND5kBufaNaJcgxGkSzB0AFvbePNPTCxlqvL_VHiJXQ-0Yks87ZCUWTKwjWqXw6HO2zLG19wtJlQWM6vCtyVk4du8dst4DSWKTcGDrVKoicvT2GYcK_KCHfOkDIg/s1320/e7759d0d-57dc-4e68-b231-400c8244727f-jumbo16x9_DSC09351EDIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1320" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURhRkWq2yxUkK8c9NoV30o8Ok4OWA0Jr5FQeK4S5USzaFgzBOIjBvY1O2XpI0ySZND5kBufaNaJcgxGkSzB0AFvbePNPTCxlqvL_VHiJXQ-0Yks87ZCUWTKwjWqXw6HO2zLG19wtJlQWM6vCtyVk4du8dst4DSWKTcGDrVKoicvT2GYcK_KCHfOkDIg/w640-h360/e7759d0d-57dc-4e68-b231-400c8244727f-jumbo16x9_DSC09351EDIT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-style: italic; text-align: start;">Photo: Phoebe Hospital</span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Phoebe will once again be represented on a float in the upcoming annual Rose Parade.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On January 2, 2023, the Donate Life Rose Parade Float titled, “Lifting Each Other Up,” will include a dedication garden made up of roses with handwritten dedications by hospital CEOs across the country.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital CEO Deb Angerami, alongside dedications celebrating transplant recipients and living donors, honoring deceased donors and thanking individuals and groups who support and participate in the donation and transplantation community.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 2023 Donate Life Rose Parade float celebrates the power of organ, eye and tissue donations. A spectacular Chinese street dragon will be the centerpiece of the float. In Chinese culture, dragons symbolize great power, good luck and strength. <b><i><a href="https://wfxl.com/news/local/phoebe-ceo-signs-rose-dedication-for-annual-rose-parade-2023-deb-angerami-" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; margin: 26px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwLmH7VGzNCri0C67FCQzFLLE_srqedGMewX8NUVTXJhdbcavbZYDzfDHx0M-uQbkgNOdtr2GFFRlZJ94ksDaACuNnJyfA5xr34b6is-WLLiGq-2vZgCbkI-DXXPwK9co-pNhkLoAc6vxwgzdjJeoVAOIGvZ60jFwNCtWLWYeDV7GztOWf2MTBzVOcA/s1832/Screenshot%202022-11-21%20at%209.01.50%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="1832" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwLmH7VGzNCri0C67FCQzFLLE_srqedGMewX8NUVTXJhdbcavbZYDzfDHx0M-uQbkgNOdtr2GFFRlZJ94ksDaACuNnJyfA5xr34b6is-WLLiGq-2vZgCbkI-DXXPwK9co-pNhkLoAc6vxwgzdjJeoVAOIGvZ60jFwNCtWLWYeDV7GztOWf2MTBzVOcA/w640-h469/Screenshot%202022-11-21%20at%209.01.50%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-43702920556616650832022-11-21T08:53:00.002-08:002022-11-21T08:53:39.087-08:00Attitudes of European students towards family decision-making and the harmonisation of consent systems in deceased organ donation: a cross-national survey<p>BMC PUBLIC HEALTH</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42VU6V2DAh5CcoqroWAjYn0MDirDKjNr0lDqVWOyVPA26nW8sAV-R3f3BOTQtDGh5CImpGcuXEDisNt9W-Pl8qbQLUX2I43sGxEPiBvYjO3kkDBGh61idboo3nLU9MYlYS4UG0nguEpEtJQFGPtL4S7KRnDQcUdLIGUUJMXWWQntVyKb7jy_dnCJemg/s500/logo-bmcph.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="500" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42VU6V2DAh5CcoqroWAjYn0MDirDKjNr0lDqVWOyVPA26nW8sAV-R3f3BOTQtDGh5CImpGcuXEDisNt9W-Pl8qbQLUX2I43sGxEPiBvYjO3kkDBGh61idboo3nLU9MYlYS4UG0nguEpEtJQFGPtL4S7KRnDQcUdLIGUUJMXWWQntVyKb7jy_dnCJemg/w640-h96/logo-bmcph.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Citation: https://rdcu.be/cZ7G7</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">European countries are increasingly harmonising their organ donation and transplantation policies. Although a growing number of nations are moving to presumed consent to deceased organ donation, no attempts have been made to harmonise policies on individual consent and the role of the family in the decision-making process. Little is known about public awareness of and attitudes towards the role of the family in their own country and European harmonisation on these health policy dimensions. To improve understanding of these issues, we examined what university students think about the role of the family in decision-making in deceased organ donation and about harmonising consent policies within Europe.</span></p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" data-test="abstract-sub-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.24; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Methods</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Using <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">LimeSurvey</i>© software, we conducted a comparative cross-sectional international survey of 2193 university students of health sciences and humanities/social sciences from Austria (339), Belgium (439), Denmark (230), Germany (424), Greece (159), Romania (190), Slovenia (190), and Spain (222).</span></p><h3 class="c-article__sub-heading" data-test="abstract-sub-heading" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.24; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Results</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Participants from opt-in countries may have a better awareness of the family’s legal role than those from opt-out countries. Most respondents opposed the family veto, but they were more ambivalent towards the role of the family as a surrogate decision-maker. The majority of participants were satisfied with the family’s legal role. <b><i><a href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-14476-z" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-23470915916472261652022-11-21T08:42:00.004-08:002022-11-21T08:42:39.127-08:00‘Amazing’: Mom hears late daughter’s transplanted heart<p> AP NEWS | CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Michael Blackshire</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHY5s3ToBI5AX1kTl463EVJdtA0JrvvrgeoMymZazxQxzC-TqNlZ0SjfuS9E5BzXm2tQg87_3iokIutRtXpplzEA8CW0TCqAHji-iY0xQOOgZh33Sytd0LzfVnCQCd0Jw_yog9iS7GbuNN6Y4FpZtbheTvBpCpgGVnGvr66CgaJgNNMEWfa3UOoB8_oQ/s1000/1000.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHY5s3ToBI5AX1kTl463EVJdtA0JrvvrgeoMymZazxQxzC-TqNlZ0SjfuS9E5BzXm2tQg87_3iokIutRtXpplzEA8CW0TCqAHji-iY0xQOOgZh33Sytd0LzfVnCQCd0Jw_yog9iS7GbuNN6Y4FpZtbheTvBpCpgGVnGvr66CgaJgNNMEWfa3UOoB8_oQ/w640-h426/1000.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: GoodOT, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Amber Morgan, from South Bend, Ind., listens to the heartbeat of Tom Johnson, from Kankakee, at Travelodge by Wyndham Downtown Chicago, on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Chicago. Morgan and Johnson met for the first time Saturday, four years after he received a heart transplanted from the body of Morgan's daughter, Andreona Williams, who was 20 when she died from asthma complications. “It’s almost like I got to hug my daughter again,” Morgan said. (Michael Blackshire/Chicago Tribune via AP)</div></span><p><br /></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana woman heard the heartbeat of her late daughter inside the chest of a 68-year-old Illinois man who received it in a transplant operation.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Amber Morgan and Tom Johnson met for the first time Saturday, four years after he received a heart transplanted from the body of Andreona Williams, who was 20 when she died from asthma complications.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Indiana Donor Network arranged the rare meeting at a Chicago hotel, <a class="paragraph-link" href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-heart-transplant-donor-family-meet-indiana-chicago-20221119-heok7hoz3zdrjendy4gvzxo7sq-story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #104ba5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Chicago Tribune reported</a>.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Morgan listened through a stethoscope that was pressed to Johnson’s chest.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“It’s almost like I got to hug my daughter again,” the South Bend, Indiana, woman said.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-64 p Component-p-0-2-55" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 44, 44); color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; width: 634.28125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“As a mother, you listen to your child’s heartbeat when you carry them, and I don’t think you ever ask to hear it again,” Morgan said. “It’s amazing.” <b><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-chicago-indiana-illinois-heart-transplants-033639691208b73c5a111cb6d8f6c761" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-48823457558602352302022-10-13T11:43:00.006-07:002022-10-13T11:45:05.979-07:0012-year-old Kansas boy gets heart transplant after collapsing at school<p>KAKE NEWS </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDqkyy4ET_cdieMHh126MZdCGO0GE3JdUocGXPHDZVrr5jGd6Z7yX5u47SUi7M_bajAOHPoO7ZkQCjdf4DKuYn4fhvK9FBamwKDRfm0DSPZhEBx8Mn2MvijKWRcoOPM3od-tHE7n44g2O0u29-Dg4ZtaO962bamOzU97Ym_sLG3iV8HNcc0Pa1b-xkQ/s1492/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%2011.39.02%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1492" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDqkyy4ET_cdieMHh126MZdCGO0GE3JdUocGXPHDZVrr5jGd6Z7yX5u47SUi7M_bajAOHPoO7ZkQCjdf4DKuYn4fhvK9FBamwKDRfm0DSPZhEBx8Mn2MvijKWRcoOPM3od-tHE7n44g2O0u29-Dg4ZtaO962bamOzU97Ym_sLG3iV8HNcc0Pa1b-xkQ/w640-h350/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%2011.39.02%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />OLATHE, Kan. (KAKE) - When a A 12-year-old boy's heart stopped at school, his teachers rushed to resuscitate him.<br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">KMBC reports Max Kotchavar was in a physical education class at Woodland Spring Middle School Olathe when he collapsed and his heart stopped. His teachers gave him CPR and used an AED to bring him back to life.<br /><br />School nurse Jeannie Brumley said she had never been in a situation like this on campus.<br /><br />"He definitely was gray in the face and around the mouth. No pulse. No respirations," she said.<br /><br />Her training kicked in, and they got his pulse back and an ambulance took him to Children's Mercy Hospital. <b><i><a href="https://www.kake.com/story/47422485/12yearold-kansas-boy-gets-heart-transplant-after-collapsing-at-school" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span><p></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="Article-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="Article-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p> </p></div>
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The marathon, coincidentally, also marked two significant milestones for the team: 1,000 living donor transplants and 4,000 total transplants for the healthcare facility, which is located in Loma Linda, California, United States. Transplant surgeon Charles Bratton said the transplant team’s dedication and sense of purpose have allowed them to successfully transform thousands of lives, including the Coyt family.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“People say they want materialistic things, but in dire times all they really want is more time with their loved ones. That’s why I became a transplant surgeon, to give them more time,” Bratton said.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The monumental, passionate team made it possible for 28-year-old Kimberly Coyt to beat genetic kidney disease with a transplant. In the 1990s, her mother, Alejandra, stood by Kimberly’s father’s side as he beat kidney disease. Years later, Alejandra recognized similar symptoms in Kimberly’s 21-year-old brother, Oscar. He almost immediately went on emergency dialysis and was told he needed a new kidney. <b><i><a href="https://adventistreview.org/profile/young-patient-celebrates-new-organ-amid-transplant-milestones/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-87112848329708343662022-10-13T11:31:00.001-07:002022-10-13T11:31:04.366-07:00A life-saving kidney transplant<p>EYE ON KELOLAND | Carter Schmidt</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBiyuxrmo5F9YXWMS9Wh_y3sBIwaYWLyZh05Qb244kNFcy88UlOn68fpeRodN8DQL4iWSsRrQDFAglol33twr9yNOcdCDoVoDvt3s7MBkBQ0YGluSV15uPM8o6b3lS-RDJidXsDAZY2LZ3TQwk6-dI5RVOPYT2MAuQDVgc8TQd3hlSJV_FrjbKjfgQg/s1016/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%2011.27.13%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="1016" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeBiyuxrmo5F9YXWMS9Wh_y3sBIwaYWLyZh05Qb244kNFcy88UlOn68fpeRodN8DQL4iWSsRrQDFAglol33twr9yNOcdCDoVoDvt3s7MBkBQ0YGluSV15uPM8o6b3lS-RDJidXsDAZY2LZ3TQwk6-dI5RVOPYT2MAuQDVgc8TQd3hlSJV_FrjbKjfgQg/w640-h360/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-13%20at%2011.27.13%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A kidney donor and recipient are celebrating a life saving procedure three months after the surgery. But getting to this point wouldn’t come without some adversity. KELOLAND’s Carter Schmidt previews tonight’s Eye on KELOLAND.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandy Louwagie was 18-years-old when she found out she had a type of chronic kidney disease. More than 20 years later, she needed a transplant. But her body rejected the kidney from her brother Beau, putting Louwagie back on the waiting list. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This past spring, a person she met through her husband’s softball team stepped forward to be a donor and was a match. The transplant happened on July 5th, and things have been going well since then. <b><i>Continue reading</i></b></p>
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The company makes customized cases for preserving hearts, lungs and livers.</span><span class="credit uppercase" style="text-transform: uppercase;">SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF</span></div></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">A heart, lung, or liver that’s been donated for transplant is among the world’s most precious commodities. Yet many of these life-saving organs arrive at the transplant hospital packed inside the same sort of beer cooler you’d see at a beach on Labor Day.<br /><br />Not good enough, says Lisa Anderson.<br /><br />Anderson is the founder of <a href="https://paragonixtechnologies.com/">Paragonix Technologies</a>, a Cambridge company that makes high-tech shipping containers for transporting human hearts, lungs, and livers. Her company’s bulbous polystyrene foam cartons come with special receptacles for holding the organs, a cooling system that achieves precise temperature control without the use of ice, and a Bluetooth-connected sensor that enables a transplant team to constantly monitor the organ’s temperature and its exact location.<br />Cleared for use by the US Food and Drug Administration, the Paragonix SherpaPak system for transporting donor hearts has now been used in more than 2,000 heart transplant cases in the United States and Europe. The company claims that 96 percent of people who’ve received donor hearts shipped in a SherpaPak are still alive one year later, compared with an 89 percent survival rate for those who got hearts packed in ice.<br /><br />Paragonix also makes specialized carriers for donor lungs and livers, and will soon introduce containers for kidneys and pancreases. The single-use containers cost between $10,000 and $20,000. That’s pricey, but the total cost of a heart transplant can reach $2 million.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />“A transplant procedure is a medical masterpiece,” said Anderson, a native of Austria with a doctorate in genetics from Cambridge University, and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School. So she was initially stunned to learn that human organs were handled so carelessly.<br /><br />Anderson first learned of the problem when she ordered up a human pancreas for her genetics research. It arrived in a cheap insulated box, packed in ice. <b><i><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/11/business/organ-transplant-startup-thinks-inside-box/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-81853037918700351882022-09-12T09:20:00.005-07:002022-09-12T09:20:46.778-07:00New memorial at NCMC honors organ, tissue donors after Greeley man’s donation saved lives<p>GREELY TRIBUNE | Trevor Reid</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9Mugewfs-iOkeYdqJgt9qh8xdZSakLgxVyoJ64CJP9bVQNS8XcWiF2CWYqYBm3CJiNK6oL-6R6LHxKWqyIzw-hl3405IhC1jH4g7BeBpZBxI6u7b0gUu5dgjGtdm7qzkhpu6DAupuprtzFWif4xKokdCrS5oDNoGddmKWa_T3qO4FSnsVh6xcVPodg/s863/VAL_6537.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="863" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9Mugewfs-iOkeYdqJgt9qh8xdZSakLgxVyoJ64CJP9bVQNS8XcWiF2CWYqYBm3CJiNK6oL-6R6LHxKWqyIzw-hl3405IhC1jH4g7BeBpZBxI6u7b0gUu5dgjGtdm7qzkhpu6DAupuprtzFWif4xKokdCrS5oDNoGddmKWa_T3qO4FSnsVh6xcVPodg/w640-h426/VAL_6537.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; caret-color: rgb(117, 114, 106); color: #75726a; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Chris Kerrigan, Banner Health’s project leader for the Organ Donor Honor Wall, holds a curtain back while a video shows images of the Gillmore family at the wall’s unveiling on Friday at North Colorado Medical Center, 1801 16th St., in Greeley. (Courtesy of Sara Quale of Banner Health)</div></span><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At 20 years old, Olivia Eisenhauer says she’s living her dream.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With a lifelong passion for sports, Eisenhauer has wanted to be a sideline reporter since she was a child. A heart condition that caused her to go into cardiac arrest twice and later made it difficult to walk up even five steps of stairs threatened those dreams.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But with the heart donation of a Greeley man who died in a tragic car crash in December 2018, Eisenhauer now studies sports journalism at Arizona State University and interns on the sports desk for the NBC affiliate in Phoenix.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Though the crash resulted in no blood flow to the brain, most other organs and tissues were left intact, meaning 22-year-old Connor Gillmore was able to help many others as an organ donor.</p><div class="dfp-ad dfp-Outstream_Video" id="div-gpt-ad-Outstream_Video" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; height: auto; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: auto;"><zeus-ad aria-hidden="true" data-json="{"targeting":{"POS":["Outstream_Video"],"zeus_rendercount":"1","zeus_slot":"zeus_Outstream_Video.init.dsk"}}" data-keyvalues="{"POS":["Outstream_Video"]}" data-refresh="false" data-renderbehavior="lazy" data-slot="/8013/greeleytribune.com/latest-headlines/Outstream_Video" id="zeus_Outstream_Video" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; margin: auto; width: 1px;"></zeus-ad></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before the crash, Gillmore’s parents, Travis and Jennifer, hadn’t known much about organ donation. Now, they’re a couple of the biggest local advocates for the cause.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Gillmores designed and funded a new memorial for organ and tissue donors revealed Friday at North Colorado Medical Center, where the operation to recover Connor’s organs and tissues took place. The memorial, in the main lobby of the hospital, features an interactive display full of information about organ donation and even an option to allow people to sign up to become organ donors on-site.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.16500000655651093px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Our son’s life mattered, and it was important to us to give him a legacy,” Jennifer said. “His life had meaning. It’s been very important for us to be good role models for our surviving kids. That grief is part of us, but it won’t define us.” <b><i><a href="https://www.greeleytribune.com/2022/09/09/new-memorial-at-ncmc-honors-organ-tissue-donors-after-greeley-mans-donation-saved-lives/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-73922687167747710292022-09-12T09:13:00.003-07:002022-09-12T09:13:44.050-07:00Daughter donated kidney to her father; together, they continue 31 years of tradition flying at The Great Reno Balloon Race (sponsored)<p> THIS IS RENO | KPS3</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAaUeZ9HHqAe_R91MWLYEP_QkvdUs76NtbCsLqhrHQJTFlfwztZIsodHQNbZb-62meIio6syV3hbgaaWdmS4CpIuGSKfl0gjsJ8lYfboVgzXdQaIue5vU6WN9GfFuvXCC2eJrCarWs0bUTSwKCOleydH-zDRTEavvrBo4cQJA9iVYbpeifOeVvquqsA/s1974/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-12%20at%209.09.24%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="1974" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjAaUeZ9HHqAe_R91MWLYEP_QkvdUs76NtbCsLqhrHQJTFlfwztZIsodHQNbZb-62meIio6syV3hbgaaWdmS4CpIuGSKfl0gjsJ8lYfboVgzXdQaIue5vU6WN9GfFuvXCC2eJrCarWs0bUTSwKCOleydH-zDRTEavvrBo4cQJA9iVYbpeifOeVvquqsA/w640-h462/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-12%20at%209.09.24%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><h4 id="h-flying-is-the-only-thing-that-pulled-me-through" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 18px; font-weight: var(--pchead-wei); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></h4><h4 id="h-flying-is-the-only-thing-that-pulled-me-through" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 18px; font-weight: var(--pchead-wei); line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Flying is the only thing that pulled me through.”</span></h4><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For the past 13 years, the anniversary of Koh Murai’s successful kidney transplant surgery has become a family tradition. He gathers with loved ones to celebrate his second chance at life, along with a very special family member – his daughter and kidney donor, Laura Ingram. Thanks to her donation, he underwent a successful transplant surgery in 2009 and has continued his passion for flying hot air balloons. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, during the 41st anniversary of The Great Reno Balloon Race, Murai will pilot Firenze, his balloon, sponsored by Donor Network West at the event. Ingram will serve as the launch director for her father’s flights throughout the race weekend; continuing a family tradition for 31 years.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Murai’s health struggles began with rising cholesterol levels and he was eventually diagnosed with kidney failure. Within three years, he also suffered a stroke and a heart attack, and underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery. He had 21% kidney function after his heart surgery.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Flying is the only thing that pulled me through those three years, plain and simple,” said Murai, who has completed over 300 hot air balloon flights since his transplant. <b><i><a href="https://thisisreno.com/2022/09/daughter-donated-kidney-to-her-father-together-they-continue-31-years-of-tradition-flying-at-the-great-reno-balloon-race-sponsored/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-68628915183631024572022-09-11T10:00:00.001-07:002022-09-11T10:00:04.615-07:00Heart recipient continues to inspire, thrive in career born from her own experience<p>WGN 9 CHICAGO | Dina Blair Katharin Czink</p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 28, 28); color: #1c1c1c; letter-spacing: -0.23000000417232513px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mackenzie Tannhauser documented organ transplant journey online. Now, 11 years later, she explains how it lead her to a career in health care</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvpmtNnHxa3f7v6OHEfvM5duBWq-HdklbFknkfZ0_fv3LNDazpephwfHOtKp84JM-9NCH_Q8x6wYURmMJoKZUXqPKvvYbwJSLcrM5hJcslwl5uKiJRcFss_9KslC6YgLc5MJyD8gp5jRa7Hvp8svrJQU4YrHDvkUEwdysS9T-HhlpQYwoBm0pcl2GhQ/s1034/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-11%20at%209.55.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="1034" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvpmtNnHxa3f7v6OHEfvM5duBWq-HdklbFknkfZ0_fv3LNDazpephwfHOtKp84JM-9NCH_Q8x6wYURmMJoKZUXqPKvvYbwJSLcrM5hJcslwl5uKiJRcFss_9KslC6YgLc5MJyD8gp5jRa7Hvp8svrJQU4YrHDvkUEwdysS9T-HhlpQYwoBm0pcl2GhQ/w640-h358/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-11%20at%209.55.42%20AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WGN’s Medical Watch first met Mackenzie Tannhauser in 2011. She had spent weeks in the hospital waiting for a new heart. At just 17 years old, she passed the time by documenting her journey.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, an update 11 years in the making – and a rare chance to see a transplant patient thriving in a career born from her own medical experience.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2011, long before Tik Tok and Instagram exploded, Tannhauser was a high school senior and took up video blogging as she waited for an organ transplant.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“One of the motivations for making the videos during my treatment was to inform younger patients and other families about what it’s like to be on the waiting list and go to all the procedures that are required for an organ transplant,” she said.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She suffered with dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart that was no longer pumping properly. In September 2011, she posted regular updates during her hospital stay – including the moment she heard the news.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WGN Medical Watch team’s visited Tannhauser just days after her transplant. <b><i><a href="https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/heart-recipient-continues-to-inspire-thrive-in-career-born-from-her-own-experience/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></p>
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHn4WND0nzloZqR9Ltfc1eKyxbGSNjhrkgwm5Zgmuw2KgyWTYb-9gpzS7R6V_oxX-V5-686LOnyCzy4e80jEA7yOEC1wfCm9HfPb3El2fRwb4rAsWSxAVd1R8dxHyvCLMI8S1DIV8vjdVlg8Uh35GV2u_V50Bg4UBlmDojOCCTOOpX_OFOqhB5hSjPA/s350/Horizontal-CHLA-Logo.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="350" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHn4WND0nzloZqR9Ltfc1eKyxbGSNjhrkgwm5Zgmuw2KgyWTYb-9gpzS7R6V_oxX-V5-686LOnyCzy4e80jEA7yOEC1wfCm9HfPb3El2fRwb4rAsWSxAVd1R8dxHyvCLMI8S1DIV8vjdVlg8Uh35GV2u_V50Bg4UBlmDojOCCTOOpX_OFOqhB5hSjPA/w400-h84/Horizontal-CHLA-Logo.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://www.chla.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #348fd5; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Newswise — Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">is hosting the</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/cc58b19a-5172-4ada-8a85-0c6d91c166bd/summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #348fd5; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">26th annual meeting</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">of the</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://tts.org/split-home" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #348fd5; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT)</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">a multidisciplinary, multicenter consortium focused on optimizing outcomes in pediatric liver transplantation through research, advocacy and dissemination of the best practices in the field. Taking place on September 22 – 24 at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach, California, the conference will feature four CHLA presenters from multiple divisions – Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; General Pediatric Surgery; and Anesthesiology Critical Care.</span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">“As a founding member of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles remains dedicated to working alongside centers around the world to improve the outcomes for children receiving liver transplants,” says <a href="https://www.chla.org/profile/rohit-kohli-mbbs-ms" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #348fd5; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS</a>, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and local host physician of the SPLIT 2022 Annual Meeting. “We relish the opportunity to come together with our esteemed colleagues to share perspectives and key learnings on the full continuum of care for children who require liver transplants: from diagnosis to post transplant recovery.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">One of the featured presentations will be by Andrew Costandi, MD, MMM, Anesthesiology Director of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Radiology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Under his leadership, CHLA pioneered the concept of fast-tracking in pediatric liver transplant patients and developed the first nationwide “Enhanced Recovery After Liver Transplantation” (ERAL) protocol, which has shortened ICU stays post-transplant from an average of 7-9 days to 3-4.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The Liver Transplant Program at CHLA is one of the largest pediatric liver transplant programs in the United States—performing more than 445 liver transplants in children since 1998. <b><i><a href="https://www.newswise.com/articles/children-s-hospital-los-angeles-hosts-26th-annual-society-of-pediatric-liver-transplantation-meeting">Continue reading</a></i></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-50314280221865250442022-09-11T09:48:00.002-07:002022-09-11T09:48:10.029-07:00North Carolina organ donor organization: Diverse donors help everyone<p> THE FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER| Danielle Niedfeldt</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidufHGt1biVJ9emh6tgTQM3hqgeGIfKT72tZVD9MUi-jxUoNSDFOlu07lcf353U3IRzEF3x_ejA9D7L-vJsC52gjkCF0bT7yqywBqFXh8zvUrVMfKR6ggy764dbjU2kNCnb7oQ3nHRts1wuE8oaqqt-ZdrsAXevquvN66XnctTV-f0qDS_46xb8_X4kw/s451/d0cdb8e1-a327-4785-863a-49d712b949f5-DanielleNiedfeldt_Headshot.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidufHGt1biVJ9emh6tgTQM3hqgeGIfKT72tZVD9MUi-jxUoNSDFOlu07lcf353U3IRzEF3x_ejA9D7L-vJsC52gjkCF0bT7yqywBqFXh8zvUrVMfKR6ggy764dbjU2kNCnb7oQ3nHRts1wuE8oaqqt-ZdrsAXevquvN66XnctTV-f0qDS_46xb8_X4kw/w426-h640/d0cdb8e1-a327-4785-863a-49d712b949f5-DanielleNiedfeldt_Headshot.jpg.webp" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Danielle Niedfeldt, Contributed</div><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Let’s save lives. People of color face disproportionately higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease that can lead to the need for organ transplants. Of the more than 105,000 people awaiting life-saving organ transplants nationally, 60% are from multicultural communities. </span></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">More diversity of donors helps everyone. In NC in 2021, 67.5% of the deceased organ donors were white, and 52% of the recipients were multicultural. Although organs are not matched by race and ethnicity, those waiting have a better chance of receiving a transplant from donors of their racial or ethnic background because compatible tissue markers are more likely found among members of the same ethnicity. </span></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Currently 52.5% of North Carolina’s licensed drivers are registered donors. Just over 34% of those registered come from multicultural communities. These disparities lead to long waiting times for those needing life-saving transplants and sadly, to many dying before a donor is found. These are our friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members. <b><i><a href="https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2022/09/09/nc-organ-donor-organization-diversity-donors-helps-everyone/8019462001/" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-91884938364870225862022-09-09T10:41:00.003-07:002022-09-09T10:41:29.824-07:00Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign celebrates the Gift of Life through Living Organ Donation<p><span style="font-family: arial;">NEWS WISE | UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK </span></p><p><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #545e6c; font-family: "optima lt std", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px;">Living donors and liver and kidney recipients share their stories and showcase their scars as badges of pride in public awareness campaigns.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIwHNH4mlNj_dKbqfB9ugEfkNMe4dv-g2NugyEzYEWPeovh5MM6q2MD7C8PHTsT4VYtZ-CeuEoNRlR1pDlI7vkLSBtj8rHCznado7QYWySy5f9dFu5SFL0HAufTPS_yuIm9DnwQEuZ4c8MkeuOKsK2yP46pXoaywTzNwDiljTu0Lq8rWgAhEefjlZ3w/s500/image.php.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIwHNH4mlNj_dKbqfB9ugEfkNMe4dv-g2NugyEzYEWPeovh5MM6q2MD7C8PHTsT4VYtZ-CeuEoNRlR1pDlI7vkLSBtj8rHCznado7QYWySy5f9dFu5SFL0HAufTPS_yuIm9DnwQEuZ4c8MkeuOKsK2yP46pXoaywTzNwDiljTu0Lq8rWgAhEefjlZ3w/w640-h428/image.php.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="image_credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "optima lt std", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">Credit: YE Agency <span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 14px;">Liver transplant recipient Afsana Lallani</span></div><div class="image_credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "optima lt std", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: left;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 0.8rem; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s;"><a href="https://www.newswise.com/articles/great-actions-leave-a-mark-campaign-celebrates-the-gift-of-life-through-living-organ-donation?channel=" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 0.8rem; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s;" title="View Article"><span style="color: black;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign celebrates the Gift of Life through Living Organ Donation</span></a>.</em></div><div class="image_credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); text-align: center; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Newswise — TORONTO, September 8, 2022 – UHN’s Ajmera Transplant Centre and The Centre for Living Organ Donation announce today the launch of a new campaign, Great Actions Leave a Mark, <a href="http://www.greatactions.ca/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #348fd5; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">www.greatactions.ca</a>. Through artistic photos and video, the campaign showcases the stories and scars (the mark) of 39 living organ donors and transplant recipients across Canada.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The campaign, a first of its kind in Canada, aims to highlight the beautiful gift of life that is given when a kidney or liver donor donates their organ to save the life of another and encourages more Canadians to get involved.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The striking artistic photos in black and white with the exception of a green scarf (green is the color that represents organ and tissue donation), will help to boost reach through online and social media channels and raise awareness of living organ donation.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Initiatives close to the Toronto General Hospital, home to the Ajmera Transplant Centre, will also promote public awareness:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "optima lt std", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: inherit; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">The hospital will have a Great Actions Leave a Mark flag at the Elizabeth Street entrance to promote conversations among patients and staff;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: inherit; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign photo of living donors and recipients will be displayed at one of the busiest subway stations in Toronto and the closest to Toronto General Hospital, Queens Park subway station, at the South East entrance. They will remain there for four weeks;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; list-style-type: inherit; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s, padding 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">The Statement Media Video Truck will be driving around Hospital Row showcasing campaign video clips on Monday, September 12.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><a href="https://www.newswise.com/articles/great-actions-leave-a-mark-campaign-celebrates-the-gift-of-life-through-living-organ-donation" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></span></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-61532827637759945092022-09-09T10:31:00.006-07:002022-09-09T10:31:41.937-07:00Father’s Life is Saved after Receiving Heart, Kidney and Liver Transplant<p><span style="font-family: arial;">UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH | Michelle Brubaker</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Univers, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">A triple organ transplant is the first in the nation to use three organs from a donor after circulatory death, using an innovative approach for organ recovery</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_0DTi0pK2PG0RTLvHpjs5zZDUZm66y8TrC8WqkypSRGCw21m-D5uFF7p2GiklKH2ATr3jBj3HMBqP9j3_ZvcYce2p0Euk-XFUMvcUaS8P6bPwOCAo0TTWOBbLNkjJwp8nCeLXZMfIIiPeV2da5K4R7JdKOoHNkPPzDGkuUJ9Y9OL2YacLQkx-9VC8A/s411/Anthony_Donatelli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="275" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_0DTi0pK2PG0RTLvHpjs5zZDUZm66y8TrC8WqkypSRGCw21m-D5uFF7p2GiklKH2ATr3jBj3HMBqP9j3_ZvcYce2p0Euk-XFUMvcUaS8P6bPwOCAo0TTWOBbLNkjJwp8nCeLXZMfIIiPeV2da5K4R7JdKOoHNkPPzDGkuUJ9Y9OL2YacLQkx-9VC8A/w428-h640/Anthony_Donatelli.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Univers, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anthony Donatelli, a father of two, received a heart, liver and kidney transplant after a rare disease caused his organs to fail. The triple organ transplant is a first for UC San Diego Health. Photo credit: Anthony Donatelli</span></div></span><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">Anthony Donatelli, age 40, has served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. On February 14, 2022, he was wheeled into the operating room at UC San Diego Health, his body facing a different kind of combat. His kidney, heart, and liver were failing, and he was about to receive three new organs.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">“I didn’t have the option of dying. I had two children at home, a six and three-year-old,” said Donatelli.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">Eight months prior, Donatelli was diagnosed with AL amyloidosis, a rare disease that originates in the bone marrow and causes a build-up of an abnormal protein in tissues and organs. The disease is not curable, but, a bone marrow transplant may be an option.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">Donatelli was referred to UC San Diego Health for consideration for a bone marrow transplant.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">“When Anthony arrived, he had advanced disease with a prognosis of less than one year. His kidneys had failed and needed hemodialysis. He had severe liver dysfunction that required draining fluid from his abdomen twice a week, and tests showed his heart function was rapidly declining,” said <a href="https://providers.ucsd.edu/details/32921/cardiology-transplantation" style="color: #0d76bb; outline: none 0px;" target="_blank">Marcus Urey, MD</a>, a cardiologist at UC San Diego Health. “He was dying in front of our own eyes.”<br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">It was determined Donatelli needed a heart, liver, and kidney transplant – a first for UC San Diego Health and a rare treatment approach offered to patients with AL amyloidosis.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">“It was completely overwhelming,” said Donatelli. “My emotions ranged from anger to acceptance.”</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary teams comprised of abdominal transplant surgery, bone marrow transplant, hematology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterology, hepatology, and nephrology were assembled.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); color: #2d2d2d; font-family: UniversLight, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 4px;">The first step in the process was to see if chemotherapy could control the bone marrow from making more of the abnormal protein. Donatelli required chemotherapy from the time of diagnosis until a few days before the transplant. He has then deemed a candidate for organ transplant and placed on the waitlist. <b><i><a href="https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2022-09-08-fathers-life-is-saved-after-receiving-heart-kidney-and-liver-transplant.aspx" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></i></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862108284133171246.post-66770776097475092252022-09-09T10:20:00.002-07:002022-09-09T10:20:15.649-07:002022 DLH Inspire Awards Honor Six Television Productions and Broadcaster Robin Roberts For Their Accurate Storytelling Concerning Organ Donation and Transplantation<p> BUSINESS WIRE </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBtdtI3TF-a7rAZaOMHpQa1_kzkra01QrB6K828ONLMpTPAyQKc1-rD7HPDqbDnsVXKbAT96kIJREZ4-8yP1OnNzQXV2aGyp3rzen5ft-dPAzPNFQKlIdPUiSoisQEZXWq-Sr6ukgHkfE4jZcw9KTdN5K8qZpHfdOLQAW31NpIaRq1Roh9BQe29uiiw/s480/Picture1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="480" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBtdtI3TF-a7rAZaOMHpQa1_kzkra01QrB6K828ONLMpTPAyQKc1-rD7HPDqbDnsVXKbAT96kIJREZ4-8yP1OnNzQXV2aGyp3rzen5ft-dPAzPNFQKlIdPUiSoisQEZXWq-Sr6ukgHkfE4jZcw9KTdN5K8qZpHfdOLQAW31NpIaRq1Roh9BQe29uiiw/w640-h514/Picture1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Donate Life Hollywood Founder Tenaya Wallace (center) is joined at the 2022 DLH Inspire Awards ceremony by (l-r) celebrities Eliza and Eric Roberts, Don Most and Stepfanie Kramer. (Photo: Business Wire)</div></span><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">LOS ANGELES--(<span itemid="https://www.businesswire.com" itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><span itemprop="name"><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/" itemprop="url" referrerpolicy="unsafe-url" rel="nofollow" style="color: #79a2bd; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">BUSINESS WIRE</a></span></span>)--Popular television programs <i>Chicago Med</i>, <i>Grey’s Anatomy</i> and <i>The Resident</i> were among the six productions honored at the 2022 DLH Inspire Awards, held recently in Hollywood. Presented by OneLegacy Foundation’s Donate Life Hollywood project, the Inspire Awards salute Hollywood’s most authentic and positive organ donation and transplantation storylines, sending messages of hope and inspiration that can literally be the difference between life and death for thousands.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Also honored at the event was ABC's "Good Morning America" co-anchor <i>Robin Roberts</i>, whose production company Rock'n Robin Productions helped to bring to life DLH Inspire Award winner <i>Last Chance Transplant</i> featured Roberts speaking with transplant candidates about their wait for a second chance at life. Other non-scripted storylines honored were <i>JOE 238</i> and <i>Letters of Hope.</i></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Throughout the year, DLH provides film companies, television programs, entertainment studios, producers, and writers easy access to a network of experts—from renowned transplant surgeons to families whose loved ones became an organ donor—for free consultations on all aspects of organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation. DLH also assists with casting, production, and publicity support.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Presenting sponsor for the DLH Inspire Awards is the OneLegacy Foundation (<a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonelegacy.org%2F&esheet=52861537&newsitemid=20220907005324&lan=en-US&anchor=OneLegacy.org&index=1&md5=8bbc446a71bffd62285d0fa5a6874ae6" referrerpolicy="unsafe-url" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #79a2bd; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">OneLegacy.org</a>), the education, research, and support arm of OneLegacy, the nonprofit federally designated organ procurement organization based in the heart of Hollywood and serving seven counties in Southern California. Also sponsoring this year’s awards were Donate Alliance of Colorado and Gift of Life Michigan, both of whom were represented at the ceremony by donor families who served as presenters. For further information, go to <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2FAccessDLH.org&esheet=52861537&newsitemid=20220907005324&lan=en-US&anchor=AccessDLH.org&index=2&md5=8280f95f4b91cfd9adf87182b969f8c3" referrerpolicy="unsafe-url" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #79a2bd; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">AccessDLH.org</a>.</p><h1 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: -webkit-box; line-height: 2.8rem; margin: 0px; max-height: 5.6rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; word-break: break-word;"><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" force-default-style=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">2022 DLH Inspire Awards Event </span><span face=""YouTube Sans", Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-size: 2rem;">Highlights</span></yt-formatted-string></h1>
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