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Episode 251: Organ Donation with Drs. Vail and Goyal

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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How to Make a Gift of Organs

Small but real proportion of people who want to make this gift don't know someone who needs, who's actively listed or maybe they had a past positive experience and want to do this. They can approach a local transplant program to volunteer more commonly a person knows of a sick family member or friend that they would like to donate to. And then they can either directly donate if all of the medical screening is complete and they are immunologically similar to that person. If there isn't a perfect match, they can still donate to someone else, a different recipient who is a match in exchange for an expected transplant for their loved one. It might be a 15, 16 kind of person chain where everyone is

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