| YOU CAN BE A DONOR |
| Organ donation saves plenty new
lives. In our country at least 10 people can be
helped when a donor becomes available. The obtaining
of tissues and organs involve a process that passes
throw a number of stages, in which both the patient’s
and the family’s desires are always respected.
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| ¿What organs are transplanted
in Chile? |
- Kidneys
- Liver
- Heart, Heart – Lungs
- Lungs
- Pancreas
- Tissues: heart valves, bones, corneas, skin.
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| If you want to become a donor
you can do it: |
- When you renew your drivers license or identity
card
- With a document signed by notary
- By filling a document at the time you enter
the hospital
- Filling in a special donor form.
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| The most important thing to
remember is to let your family know you want to
be a donor, because the final decision is up to
them. |
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| Tissue and Organ Procurement Link |
- Search and warn about the existence of a potential
donor all over the country (emergency and intensive
care units)
- The potential donor is medically evaluated
(at the hospital, lab exams)
- Brain Death is certified by an specialist
(neurologist or neurosurgeon)
- Solving medical-legal problems: Arrival of
the doctor in charge according to what the law
instates.
- Contact the family and Donation Request
- Take the blood samples and other exams to
the “Instituto de Salud Pública”
- Beginning of activities for organ extraction
(transportation for doctors and their surgery
team, extraction, preservation of the extracted
organs).
- Organ assignation, transportation and transplantation.
- Register donors, recipients, medical procedures
and guarantee the quality, security and transparence
of the system.
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