Jeff Trageser, interim director of the nonprofit Lifesharing, discusses the challenges, rewards of organ donations as the Transplant Games get underway in San Diego this week
How does this region do in terms of organ donations?Actually we’re really successful, both in having a lot of registered donors and in having the families of those who never signed up say “yes” when we approach them. Our eligible authorization rate is close to 80 percent, which is higher than the national average of 75 percent.One thing to keep in mind is that only about 1 in 300 in-hospital deaths qualify to be an organ donor. You have to pass away in a very specific way.
What we don’t want is a family to say, “He really wanted to be a donor, but we’re really busy right now, we have a lot going on, and we’re just not going to do it.” Because I have met those families, who come up to me six months later and say, “I’m really sorry we didn’t donate. We really wanted to. We wish we had. But we couldn’t see our way clear.”
We also have a program where if the family of the donor chooses, we can provide more information to the recipient, and the donor family can also receive information from the recipient. Same thing with the donor family. They might write back and say, “The donor of your liver also loved to play golf and he had a couple of grandkids and he would have loved to know this. So thank you.”
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