Organ Donations

[Bostaevski]

7 people is about the best possible outcome (Heart, both lungs, both kidneys, Liver, and Pancreas). Occasionally my OPO will recover an intestine for transplant (like once a year). Also the liver can be split in two and be transplanted to two separate people but this is rare. At any rate, 7-Organ Donors are very rare.

There is another way to become a donor aside from brain death and this is what we call Donor after Cardiac Death (DCD). DCD Donors make up 10 to 20% of all donors in our area. Obviously the heart is probably not transplantable in these cases but occasionally they are able to transplant them successfully.