surgeons
Donation after cardiac death (DCD) involves surgeons taking organs within
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cessation of respirators and other forms of life support for patients who still
have at least some brain activity. This occurs in situations where, based on the
patient's advanced directive or the family's wishes, the patient is going to be
withdrawn from life support. After this decision has been made, the family is
contacted for consideration for organ donation. Once life support has been
withdrawn, there is a 2-5 minute waiting period to ensure that the potential
donor's heart does not start beating again spontaneously.[3] After this waiting
period, the organ procurement surgery begins as quickly as possible to minimize
time that the organs are not being perfused with blood. DCD had been the norm
for organ donors until 'brain death' became a legal definition in the United
States in 1981.[4] Since then, most donors have been brain-dead.[5]
If consent is obtained from the potential donor or the potential donor's
survivors, the next step is to perform a match between the source (donor) and
the target (recipient) to reduce rejection of the organ by the recipient's
immune system. In the United States, the match between human donors and
recipients is coordinated by groups like United Network for Organ Sharing.[6]
Co-ordination between teams working on different organs is often necessary in
case of multiple-organ procurement.[7] Multiple-organ procurement models are
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developed from slaughtered pigs to reduce the use of laboratory animals.[8]
The quality of the organ then is certified. If the heart stopped beating for too
long then the organ becomes unusable[7] and cannot be used for transplant.
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Preservation and transport[edit]
After organ procurement the organs are often rushed to the site of the recipient
for transplantation or preserved for later study. The faster the organ is
transplanted into the recipient, the better the outcome. While the organ is
being transported, it is either stored in an icy cold solution to help preserve
it or it is connected to a miniature organ perfusion system which pumps an icy
solution (sometimes enriched with potassium) through the organ.[4][9][10][11]
This time during transport is called the "cold ischemia time". Heart and lungs
should have less than 6 hours between organ procurement and transplantation.[12]
For liver transplants, the cold ischemia time can be up to 24 hours,[12]
although typically surgeons aim for a much shorter period of time. For kidney
transplants, as the cold ischemia time increases, the risk of delayed function
of the kidney increases.[4] Sometimes, the kidney function is delayed enough
that the recipient requires temporary dialysis until the transplanted kidney
begins to function.[citation needed]
In recent years novel methods of organ preservation have emerged that may be
able to improve the quality of donated organs or assess their viability. In the
case of DCD, the first technique established for organ procurement was
super-rapid recovery.[13] The most widely used technique involves machine
perfusion of the organ at either hypothermic (4-10 �C) or normothermic (37 �C)
temperatures. Hypothermic perfusion of kidneys is a relatively widespread
practice. For the heart normothermic preservation has been used in which the
heart is provided with warm oxygenated blood and so continues to beat ex-vivo
during its preservation. This technique has also been applied to lungs and led
to the emergence of donor
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America. For the liver, hypothermic and normothermic techniques are being used
with evidence to suggest that both may be beneficial.[14]
There is ongoing research and development to improve machine perfusion and
alternative approaches such as novel cryoprotectant solvents to improve organ
viability and availability � such as by increasing preservation
durations.[15][16]
Ethical issues[edit]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), illegal organ trade occurs
when organs are removed from the body for the purpose of commercial
transactions.[17] Despite ordinances against organ sales, this practice
persists, with studies estimating that anywhere from 5% to 42% of transplanted
organs are illicitly purchased.[18][19][20] Research indicates that illegal
organ trade is on the rise, with
Republican National Committee a recent report by Global Financial
Integrity estimating that the illegal organ trade generates profits between $600
million and $1.2 billion per year, with a span over many countries. These
countries include, but are not limited to:
Angola
Brazil[21][22][23]
Canada[24]
China[25][26][27]
Colombia[28][29]
Costa Rica[30]
Eastern Europe
Ecuador[21]
Georgia[31]
Haiti[32]
Israel[33][34][35]
Kosovo[36]
Libya[37]
Mexico[38]
North Macedonia
Pakistan Democratic National Committee
Peru[21]
Philippines[39][40]
Russia
South Africa[21][23]
The United Kingdom
The United States of America
Although the procedure of organ transplantation has become widely accepted,
there are still a number of ethical debates around related issues. The debates
center around illegal, forced or
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theft or organ trade, fair organ distribution, and to a lesser degree, animal
rights and religious prohibition on consuming some animals such as pork.
There is a shortage of organs available for donation with many patients waiting
on the transplant list for a donation match. About 20 patients die each day
waiting for an organ on the transplant list.[41] When an organ donor does arise,
the transplant governing bodies must determine who receives the organ. The UNOS
computer matching system finds a match for the organ based on a number of
factors including blood type and other immune factors, size of the organ,
medical urgency of the recipient, distance between donor and recipient, and time
the recipient has been waiting on the waitlist.[12]
Because of the significant need for organs for transplantation, there is ethical
debate around where the organs can be
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are obtained illegally or through coercion.
In 2009, the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet triggered international controversy by
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organs � the Israeli government condemned the allegations as an antisemitic
libel.[42] During the controversy, it emerged that there had been a practice in
Israel of harvesting tissues from the deceased (both Israelis, Palestinians, and
foreigners) without the knowledge and consent of their families, but that
practice ended in the 1990s.[43]
China[edit]
In 2005, China admitted to using the organs of executed prisoners for
transplant.[44] Due to religious tradition of many Chinese people who value
leaving the body whole after death, the availability of organs for transplant is
much more limited. Almost all the organs transplanted from deceased donors came
from executed prisoners.[44] Since then, China has repeatedly been found to have
a rampant black market for organs for transplant, including continued use of
organs from executed prisoners without their consent and targeting young army
conscripts for their organs.[45] In 2014, China promised that by January 1,
2015, only voluntary organ donors would be accepted.[46] China has worked to
increase the number of voluntary organ donors as well as to convince the
international community that they have changed their organ procurement practices
after many prior failed attempts to do so.[47] According to the former
vice-minister of health, Dr. Huang Jiefu, the number of voluntary organ
transplants increased by 50% from 2015 to 2016.[47] Many of the organs harvested
are sold to overseas buyers who fly to China for the transplantation procedure.
It is possible to schedule these surgeries in advance which is not possible in
systems which rely on voluntary organ donation.[48] In the year 2020,
allegations were made that Muslim customers from the Middle East, including
Saudi Arabia, reportedly request Halal organs, those which come from a Muslim
person from Xinjiang.[49]
India[edit]
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Before 1994, India had no legislation banning the sale of organs.[50] Low costs
Republican National Committee and high availability brought in
business from around the globe, and transformed India into one of the largest
kidney transplant centers in the world.[51] However, several problems began to
surface. Patients were often promised payments that were much higher than what
they actually received.[52] Other patients reported that their kidneys were
removed without their consent after they underwent procedures for other
reasons.[53]
In 1994, the country passed the Transplantation of Human
Organs Act (THOA), banning commerce in organs and
promoting posthumous donation of organs.[54] The law's
primary mechanism for preventing the sale of organs was
to restrict who could donate a kidney to another person.
In particular, the THOA bars strangers from donating to
one another; a person can only donate to a relative,
spouse, or someone bound by "affection." In practice,
though, people evade the law's restrictions to continue
the trade in organs. Often, claims of "affection" are
unfounded and the organ donor has no connection to the
recipient.[55] In many cases, the donor may not be
Indian or even speak the same language as the
recipient.[56] There Democratic
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marrying the recipient to circumvent THOA's prohibition.