Organ & Tissue Donation: An Opportunity to Make A Difference

1. Organ & Tissue Donation:An Opportunity to Make A Difference Ray Gabel, BA Community Educator Midwest Transplant Network

2. Midwest Transplant Network Services • Organ Donation/Referral • Tissue Donation/Referrals • Professional Education • Community Education • Donor Family Aftercare • Transplant Team Fly out/support Headquarters Satellite Offices

6. Distribution of Organs • United Network for Organ Sharing • LocalRegionalNational • Blood type • Height and weight • Status: “How sick is the patient?” • Length of waiting time • HLA matching (kidney and pancreas)

7. Fact . . . • Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant. • Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area. • In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants. • In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors. • Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed annually. Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation

9. The “Other” Waiting List • 26 Million asthma suffers • 3 Million with emphysema • 17 Million diabetics • 12 Million with heart disease • 30,000 Children and adults with CF • 20 Million with arthritis • 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women) Source: IIAM 2006

10. Fact . . . • Every 11 minutes a new name is added to the national waiting list. • An average of 18 people die each day in this country because an organ donor did not become available in time. • 12% of the U.S. population is African American, 35% of patients awaiting kidney transplants are African American Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation, NKF

11. Distribution of Organs • United Network for Organ Sharing • LocalRegionalNational • Blood type • Height and weight • Status: “How sick is the patient?” • Length of waiting time • HLA matching (kidney and pancreas)

12. Fact . . . • Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant. • Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area. • In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants. • In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors. • Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed annually. Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation

13. The “Other” Waiting List • 26 Million asthma suffers • 3 Million with emphysema • 17 Million diabetics • 12 Million with heart disease • 30,000 Children and adults with CF • 20 Million with arthritis • 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women) Source: IIAM 2006

14. RESOURCE: DONATE LIFE AMERICA

15. RESOURCE: DONATE LIFE AMERICA

16. Fact . . . • One organ and tissue donor can help more than 50 people.

17. Lung Transplant Waiting List • 12% death rate per year • 40-50% of those identified as suitable transplant canidates will die from underlying disease before suitable organ is available • 2 deaths occur on the waiting list for every 3 patients transplanted

18. How does it affect us in the Midwest?