Thursday, December 2, 2010

Organ & Tissue Donation, Direct Patient Care Links

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New! Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation:"The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, the nation’s largest tissue bank, changes lives by connecting donors with surgeons and transplant recipients. As a non-profit service organization, MTF is dedicated to providing quality tissue through a commitment to excellence in education, research, recovery and care for recipients, donors and their families. Since our inception in 1987, MTF has recovered more than 60,000 donors and has distributed more than 3 million grafts for transplantation."
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
125 May Street
Edison, NJ 08837
Telephone: 732-661-0202
Fax: 732-661-2298
Customer Service Telephone: 1-800-433-6576
Customer Service Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (EST)
E-mail Addresses: General information and questions may be directed to: Information@mtf.org
http://www.mtf.org/

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Donate Life America:"Donate Life America, formerly the Coalition on Donation, was founded by the transplant community in 1992 to educate the public about organ, eye and tissue donation and avoid duplication of effort. Donate Life America assists in mobilizing the transplant community to educate the American public on the need for organ, eye and tissue donation and motivating the public to make an actionable donor designation. The organization publishes brochures, program kits and other materials; provides technical assistance and referral services; coordinates the national campaign for organ, eye and tissue donation; identifies measurable best practices and leads the Donor Designation Collaborative."
Donate Life America
700 N. Fourth Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
phone: 804-782-4920
fax: 804-782-4643
http://donatelife.net

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American Cord Blood Program:"While you are pregnant, your baby’s umbilical cord is a lifeline between the two of you. After your baby is born, umbilical cord blood can be a lifeline for someone else a child or adult with leukemia or another life-threatening illness. By donating umbilical cord blood, your baby can become a hero to a patient in need.
http://www.americancordblood.com/home.html

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Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF), Maryland:"The Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF) is an independent Maryland non-profit, 501 (c) (3), organization and is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of community professionals."
http://www.anatomicgift.com/

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BMT InfoNet Homepage...
Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network is a not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of persons facing a bone marrow, blood stem cell or umbilical cord blood trans...
http://www.http://www.bmtinfonet.org

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Duke Transplant Center - Lung Transplant Home...
Transplant Center at Duke University Medical Center ...
http://lungtransplant.mc.duke.edu

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Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center:"The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center has been established at McLean Hospital as a centralized resource for the collection and distribution of human brain specimens for brain research. Research over the past decade has shown that the study of human brain tissue is essential to increasing our understanding of how the nervous system functions. Most recently, postmortem human brain research has played a significant role in the development of a genetic test for Huntington's disease as well as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. Similarly, neurochemical and anatomical studies focusing on the biological nature of the severe mental illnesses are now emerging and bringing forth new hope for understanding the underlying brain mechanisms responsible for psychosis and other symptoms associated with these debilitating brain disorders. In order to perform research into the neurological or psychiatric disorders, it is vital to collect normal control tissue as well."
Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
McLean Hospital
115 Mill Street
Belmont, MA 02478
1-800-BRAIN BANK, (1-800-272-4622)
http://www.brainbank.mclean.org/

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International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (IIAM):"a non-profit organization whose purpose is to facilitate the placement of non-transplantable human organs and tissues for biomedical research and education."
http://www.iiam.org/geninfo/backgrnd.htm

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Living Bank Uniform Anatomical Gift Act Donor Form:"For more information about organ/tissue donation, contact The Living Bank at 1-800-528-2971. The organ and tissue shortage is a crisis, but it is a crisis with a cure. Remember, the only way your family will know your decision is if you tell them."
http://www.actec.org/pubInfoArk/livingbank.html

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Organ Donation, Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.organdonor.gov/faq.html

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Second Wind Lung Transplant Association, Inc....
Second Wind Lung Transplantation Association...
http://www.2ndWind.org

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Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (Alaska):
http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title13/Chapter50.htm

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Nursing Malpractice Case Studies:

June 20, 1999: Organ Donation Informed Consent, Is A Single Parent's Sufficient?
Organ donors are in high demand.  Frequently intended recipients can wait a lifetime for the critical matching organ.  In this case, two nurses obtained a consent from a child's mother.  When the father later expressed his disagreement, the child's corneas had been harvested and it was too late.
Andrews v. Alabama Eye Bank, 727 S. 2d 62 –AL (1999)
http://www.nursefriendly.com/nursing/clinical.cases/062099.htm

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