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Annotated Bibliography
Brown, J.B., Karley, M.L., Boudville, N., Bullas, N., Garg, A.M. & Muirhead, N. (2008). The experience of living kidney donors. Health and Social Work, 33(2), 93-94.
Authors provide an overview of recent trends in kidney donations in general and in Canada in particular. This goal of this qualitative study was to provide new insights concerning the decision-making processes and psychosocial issues that living kidney donors experience to identify ways to improve transplant programs by highlighting the special needs of living donors and to guide quality improvement. To this end, the researchers used a purposeful sampling of 12 living kidney donors (m=8; f=4) and a semi-structured interview format. Authors determined that there was a profound need for pre- and post-operative counseling as well as emotional support to help donors cope with the sense of loss involved.
Hippen, B. (2008). Organ sales in Iran: Is it worth a look? ReachMD. [Online]. Available:
http://www.reachmd.com/xmsegment.aspx?sid=3037.
In this online radio program, Dr. Hippen reports that Iran is the only country in the world where the practice of organ sales, including kidneys, is legal and notes that there is no shortage of organs needed for transplantation in this country. In fact, people in need of organs from other parts of the Middle East frequently travel to Iran to have the transplantation procedures conducted and suggests that legalizing organ sales in other countries bear closer scrutiny.
Ross, L.F., Siegler, M. & Thistlethwaite, J.R., Jr. (2007). We need a registry of living kidney donors. The Hastings Center Report, 37(6), 37.
Authors report that during the period...
Based on this minimal failure rate, authors suggest that the living kidney donation process is safe, but long-term data concerning survival rates remains incomplete.
Morley, M.T. (2002). Proxy consent to organ donation by incompetents. Yale Law Journal,
111(5), 1215-1216.
Author provides a brief history of live kidney donations, statistics, and ethical issues involved, particularly when the donors are legally incompetent. Author notes that the first successful kidney transplant using a living human donor was performed in 1954 and since that time, more than 40,000 kidney transplants using live donors have been performed. Author also cites a dramatic gap between the number of recipients who are in desperate need and the number of available healthy kidneys from live donors that are available.
Unique model. (2007, Winter). The Wilson Quarterly, 31(1), 89-90.
Editors cite the enormous gap between the number of living kidney donors that are available vs. The demand for these organs and emphasize that approximately 18
people die in the United States every day while waiting for an organ transplant while another 93,000 continue to be listed on waiting lists. The majority of these organ recipients are in need of a kidney, but just 25% of the demand is currently being satisfied. Editors emphasize also that, "Nobody dies on a waiting list for a kidney transplant in Iran. An 'Iranian model' of "compensated donations" has achieved unique success in eliminating any waiting list for kidney transplants" (p.…
Unique model. (2007, Winter). The Wilson Quarterly, 31(1), 89-90.
Editors cite the enormous gap between the number of living kidney donors that are available vs. The demand for these organs and emphasize that approximately 18
people die in the United States every day while waiting for an organ transplant while another 93,000 continue to be listed on waiting lists. The majority of these organ recipients are in need of a kidney, but just 25% of the demand is currently being satisfied. Editors emphasize also that, "Nobody dies on a waiting list for a kidney transplant in Iran. An 'Iranian model' of "compensated donations" has achieved unique success in eliminating any waiting list for kidney transplants" (p. 90).
Mayor, S. (2009). "UK sees rise in people donating a kidney to unknown recipients." British medical journal 338(7710), pp. 1521. In this brief yet highly relevant article, the author describes a recently observed trend of increasing live-donor kidney donations for unknown recipients. Though living donors for family members with a need for transplant have been relatively common for sometime, the idea of donating a kidney while still living for a person
This study underscores the presumption that where public health information campaigns are concerned, information is often accessed but forgotten or ignored. By connecting this information to certain compensatory incentives, those who make up a likely donor population may be more likely to retain and return to the information provided. Though controversial, this does present a realistic view on the motives that might incline one toward an act with significant
(2008). The study measures public opinion concerning two scenarios: one in which the kidney donor is given a fixed financial compensation; and one in which the donor is provided with health insurance coverage for life. According to the findings of the study, "although almost half of the respondents (46%) were reluctant towards introducing a system with fixed compensation to increase the number of living kidney donors, still 25% of
Some authors show that, contrary to the belief that health care professionals are less sensitive than the general public toward the manipulation of the body, they in fact have great difficulty in allowing action to be taken on the deceased donor, even actions as well accepted as transplantation. Various authors have reported that, as in the general public, knowing transplant patients has a parallel in the hospital setting, and
Organ Donation There is a space for a small pink sticker on everyone's driver's license which you choose to affix or to leave off of the identification. The sticker signifies that, should you be in a car accident and are declared to be brain-dead with no chance of recuperating, you agree to allow medical professionals to donate your organs to people who are in very dire need of them. When people
Tissue Donation Donated body organs like hearts and kidneys contribute to the saving of hundreds of lives each year. The fact is that bequeathed tissues like skin, bone and heart valves could remarkably enhance the value of life for the persons receiving them. A patient who is dead following a cardiac arrest i.e. whose heartbeat has stopped permanently cannot be an organ donor but can be a tissue donor. Though in