{"id":1041,"date":"2024-04-15T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1041"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:19:10","slug":"2-7-7","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/2-7-7\/","title":{"raw":"2.7.8 Organ and Tissue Donation","rendered":"2.7.8 Organ and Tissue Donation"},"content":{"raw":"Since 2018, Health Canada has been leading an initiative called the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative. Organ donation needs to be done surgically &amp; immediately after pronouncement of death using neurologically determined death. This makes organ donation in LTC very difficult.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>All patients have the potential to donate tissue after death.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Tissues do not require blood flow at the time of recovery and therefore the opportunity to donate tissue is possible for most patients and families.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>ASK!<\/li>\r\n \t<li>If organ donation is being considered, follow the process in your province\/area[footnote]Trillium Gift of Life, n.d.[\/footnote][footnote]Government of Canada, 2023b[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>Since 2018, Health Canada has been leading an initiative called the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative. Organ donation needs to be done surgically &amp; immediately after pronouncement of death using neurologically determined death. This makes organ donation in LTC very difficult.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All patients have the potential to donate tissue after death.<\/li>\n<li>Tissues do not require blood flow at the time of recovery and therefore the opportunity to donate tissue is possible for most patients and families.<\/li>\n<li>ASK!<\/li>\n<li>If organ donation is being considered, follow the process in your province\/area<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Trillium Gift of Life, n.d.\" id=\"return-footnote-1041-1\" href=\"#footnote-1041-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Government of Canada, 2023b\" id=\"return-footnote-1041-2\" href=\"#footnote-1041-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-1041-1\">Trillium Gift of Life, n.d. <a href=\"#return-footnote-1041-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-1041-2\">Government of Canada, 2023b <a href=\"#return-footnote-1041-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":62,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1041","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1041\/revisions\/1054"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1041\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}