ORGAN DONATION
Which are the different types of organ donation?
Regarding the origin of the organ, this can be extracted from a dead or an alive person. These ones are only made when donor's health is guaranteed. Following with the donation in live depending on the donor's decisions and conditions, there are different types:
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Directed donation, it is the most frequent type. It takes place when the organ is given to a specific person.
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Non-directed living donor, when the donor hasn't designated someone as the recipient.
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Cross-over transplantation, sometimes the surgery with the planned subjest can't be executed due to immunological issue. So, another partner with the same problem has to be found, so that each partner can get other's organ.
The main difference belongs to the life time of the organs. While in case of a death brain, the heart continues pumping blood to the deceased’s organs, if the cause of death comes from the heart, this doesn’t happen, so, the oxygen doesn’t arrive to the rest of the body. Nevertheless, as this type of donation is the one which has a less number of donors, it’s not carried out in all the countries of the EU. Without going any further, according to the ONT (Organización Nacional de Trasplantes), the donors of this type represent the 26% of the total.
Looking at the donor’s decisions, people can express during live the desire of donating his or her organs, after his or her death. There is also a process which is called presumed consent for organ donation, which consists on if unless a person who has died hasn’t expressed the desire of not being a donor and his or her family doesn’t agree, he or she would become a potential donor.
The durability and usability of an organ depends on the origin, for example, a kidney which comes from a living donor lasts more than one that comes from a dead one.
When the organ is taken from a deceased person who has died in a hospital (majority of cases in Spain), there are two different types of extraction. On the one hand, the death of the donor may has been diagnosed after the confirmation of the cease irreversible of his cardiorespiratory functions, that is the lack of beatings and breathing. This type of donation is called non-heart-beating donation. On the other hand, the deceased may has been diagnosed of a brain death. But, what are the differences between these types of extraction?
Cerebral infarction
