Organ and Tissue Donation Differences
Difference between organ donation and tissue donation are explained below:
Organ donation:
- Brain death/DCD
- 5 percent of all deaths eligible
- Saves six to eight people
- Immediate transplantation
- Careful blood and tissue typing/matching
- High public awareness
- Referral process - (866) 894-2676
- Call when patient meets clinical triggers, when death is imminent or when family is considering withdrawal of life support
- Work with OPO coordinator and team, huddle to approach family when suitable
- Have patient chart available (HIPPA-exempt)
- Recovery process
- Operating Room
- Two- to four-hour surgical procedure
Tissue and eyes:
- Cardiac death
- 95 percent of all deaths eligible
- Life-saving or life-enhancing for 50 or more people
- 14 days-five years before transplant
- Little or no blood and tissue typing/matching
- Little public awareness
- Referral process - (866) 894-2676
- Call at time of cardiac death
- Call prior to approaching family to determine eligibility
- Have patient chart available (HIPPA exempt)
- Please do not release the body to the funeral home
- Recovery process
- Operating Room, morgue or funeral home (aseptic)
- Two- to four-hour surgical procedure for tissue, 20 minutes for eyes/corneas
- Eight to 24 hours after asystole depending on refrigeration
