- المجال: Government; Health care
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HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
Since 2000, Donate Life and its Spanish-translation Done Vida have been the primary slogans and service mark logos of Donate Life America, promoting donation as a forthright, life-affirming action. Donate Life America encourages the widest possible use of its logos and materials in order to provide a sustained, unified national message about donation. Guidelines and policies are in place to ensure consistency, appropriate use, and the integrity of these national logos and materials.
Industry:Health care
Slow, continuous immunological attack of the host immune system on the transplanted organ usually resulting in progressive loss of organ function.
Industry:Health care
Someone from whom at least one organ or tissue is recovered for the purpose of transplantation. A deceased donor is a patient who has been declared dead using either brain death or cardiac death criteria, from whom at least onevascularized solid organ is recovered for the purpose of organ transplantation. A living donor is one who donates an organ or segment of an organ for the intent of transplantation.
Industry:Health care
State-created, nonprofit associations that do not require tax dollars for operational purposes. The risk pools are a temporary stopping place for individuals who are denied health insurance for medical reasons. Risk pools often help individuals who, because of their physical condition, are unable to purchase health insurance at any price.
Industry:Health care
Survival rates indicate the percentage of patients that are alive and the grafts (organs) that are still functioning after a certain amount of time. Survival rates are used in developing OPTN policy.
Industry:Health care
Test used to measure the pH (acidity), oxygen content, and carbon dioxide content of the blood in order to evaluate respiratory diseases and conditions that affect the lungs.
Industry:Health care
The 1968 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) provided the legal foundation upon which human organs and tissues could be donated for transplantation by execution of an anatomical gift authorizing document. Since 1972, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have adopted this Act, or amended forms of this Act.
Industry:Health care
The 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act is a model statute defining "brain death." Versions of this Act have been adopted in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The act states that an individual who has sustained either (a) irreversible cessation of circulatory or respiratory functions or (b) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
Industry:Health care
The ad hoc committee formed to consider issues relating to importing and exporting organs and providing transplant services to nonresident aliens.
Industry:Health care
The amount of time a candidate is on the Wait List. Waiting times can be influenced by many factors, including:
* blood type (some are rarer than others)
* tissue type
* height and weight of transplant candidate
* size of donated organ
* medical urgency
* time on the waiting list
* the distance between the donor's hospital and the potential donor organ
* how many donors there are in the local area over a period of time and
* the transplant center's criteria for accepting organ offers
Depending on the kind of organ needed, some factors are more important than others.
Industry:Health care
