Organ & Tissue Donation:An Opportunity to Make A Difference

Ray Gabel, BACommunity Educator

Midwest Transplant Network

Midwest Transplant Network Services

• Organ Donation/Referral

• Tissue Donation/Referrals

• Professional Education• Community Education• Donor Family Aftercare• Transplant Team Fly

out/support

Headquarters

Satellite Offices

Distribution of Organs• United Network for Organ Sharing

– LocalRegionalNational• Blood type• Height and weight• Status: “How sick is the patient?”• Length of waiting time• HLA matching (kidney and

pancreas)

Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation

Fact . . .• Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States

are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant.• Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area.

• In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants.

• In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors.• Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed

annually.

The “Other” Waiting List

• 26 Million asthma suffers• 3 Million with emphysema• 17 Million diabetics• 12 Million with heart disease• 30,000 Children and adults with CF• 20 Million with arthritis• 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women)

Source: IIAM 2006

Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation, NKF

Fact . . .

• Every 11 minutes a new name is added to the national waiting list.

• An average of 18 people die each day in this country because an organ donor did not become available in time.

• 12% of the U.S. population is African American, 35% of patients awaiting kidney transplants are African American

Distribution of Organs• United Network for Organ Sharing

– LocalRegionalNational• Blood type• Height and weight• Status: “How sick is the patient?”• Length of waiting time• HLA matching (kidney and

pancreas)

Source: UNOS, Coalition on Donation

Fact . . .• Over 102,000 men, women, and children in the United States

are currently awaiting a life-saving organ transplant.• Nearly 3,000 of them live in the Kansas-Missouri area.

• In 2008 there were approximately 8,000 deceased organ donors and 6,308 living donors resulting in 28,355 organ transplants.

• In 2008, there were approximately 30,000 tissue donors.• Approximately 750,000 tissue transplants are performed

annually.

The “Other” Waiting List

• 26 Million asthma suffers• 3 Million with emphysema• 17 Million diabetics• 12 Million with heart disease• 30,000 Children and adults with CF• 20 Million with arthritis• 10 Million with osteoarthritis (80% women)

Source: IIAM 2006

RESOURCE: DONATE LIFE AMERICA

RESOURCE: DONATE LIFE AMERICA

Fact . . .

• One organ and tissue donor can help more than 50 people.

TissueOrgan

Lung Transplant Waiting List

• 12% death rate per year• 40-50% of those identified as suitable

transplant canidates will die from underlying disease before suitable organ is available

• 2 deaths occur on the waiting list for every 3 patients transplanted

How does it affect us in the Midwest?