2007-11-13 23:24:28 · 9 answers · asked by Irish_Galxx 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Some interesting answers so therefore your not really dead when they taake your organs your kinda still alive?? Thats just wierd!
2007-11-14 00:56:37 · update #1
because .....
a) you need to have 2 doctors confirm you are brain dead and unable to live without the use of a machine.
b) when they do remove your organs, it needs to be removed in a theatre where it is sterile, and shipped to the reciepiant.
The doctors need to run strict tests on the donor before they can proceed, and they can not do that outside of hospital. They need to know your lifestyle before you donate, to make sure you have no brain activity and what blood group, what cmv status you are etc etc. The list is endless but it does need to be done. If you died at home, by the time you reached hoispital the organs would have died and not be harvested ready to be removed. It is actually very hard to donate your organs, not alot of people are fit enough, and it has to be a certain way of dying, to be able to donate. For example, someone with cancer would not be able to donate as the risk to the reciepant would be too great.
2007-11-14 05:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by 2plus3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if you wern't dead, it would really hurt!
Seriously though, once dead, organs etc. start to rot, they need to be removed and put in suitable chilled storage asap for them to be of use to anyone else. Hospitals have this, if you're a dead biker on the side of the road, it is unlikely that these facilities are available.
2007-11-13 23:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well how are you going to live without them? You have to die first and the hospital is the place to be so they can take your organs right away while they are still fresh to keep them chilled.
2007-11-13 23:34:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When someone is on ventilation, their organs are being artificially supplied with Oxygen, which keeps them viable for transplantation, when patient pronounced clinically dead ie no brain stem function, organs can be harvested.
2007-11-14 04:48:50 · answer #4 · answered by It's me :) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Come on! Certain organs CAN be donated while you are alive, a kidney being the prime example.
2007-11-14 06:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you die else where the blood flow stops to that organ and it dies, if you are in hospital and pronounced clinicaly dead the blood is still flowing and the organ can be removed and packed in ice for transplant
2007-11-13 23:33:53 · answer #6 · answered by Les T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they have to keep you 'alive' for the removal process, otherwise the organs would be no good.
2007-11-13 23:31:42 · answer #7 · answered by Mimkat hate the new Yahoo Answers so has retired. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it will be the time facter, too much time would be lost getting the donor to hospital.
2007-11-13 23:32:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well they could take them while you are alive.
2007-11-13 23:28:00 · answer #9 · answered by elizadushku 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋