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Kaitlin

Organ Donation
Picture this. A young girl, like you or me, cycling down a deserted road in broad daylight. A 4wd motor vehicle comes up behind her and knocks her flying 6 feet in the air and 17 feet across the tarmac. Her head hits the ground and her brain starts to swell. She was left there as the offender drove away. Soon after, a member of the public helps and an ambulance was called. Bike crushed, helmet shattered into a million pieces and a young girl, dying on the side of the road. Her brain dies and her heart slows to a stop. She was dead⦠The ambulance officer tried everything but as a last resort, he gives her one last shot of adrenaline. They got a pulse. She was alive.
In hospital, alive solely because of life support, the young girl lay lifelessly on the hospital bed, with her loving family surrounding her. The neurosurgeon confirmed that she was 100% brain dead and explained what that meant to the family with two small children. He explained that nothing could be done to save this girl, but said that she was perfect for organ donation. He asked if they would consider, and they said yes.
What is it? What is organ donation? Well, do you need your heart when youâre dead? No you donât, but someone else might. Organ donation is a way of trying to help the sick and giving your organs could save or help up to 50 people. People every day die of liver failure or kidney failure, yet so many people die in the right criteria but still end up getting buried or cremated with perfectly good, useful organs.
Every year, hundreds of people are on the waiting list for organs. Not all of them survive. Theyâre waiting to die, and their families are waiting for the day when the nurses say âIâm sorry, they're not going to make it.â The little hope they have, is hoping that someone will die so they can have another shot at life. They need hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys. But as only a small percentage of New Zealanders donate, sadly, they wonât all make it.
How many New Zealanders die every year? A lot. If so many people die, why arenât many organs donated? Because, only certain situations can organs be used, because your organs have to be alive and have blood still pumping through them. For instance; if you die inside and been on life support, organs can usually be donated, but if someone dies outside hospital, and has not been on a life support machine, internal organs cannot be used for organ donation. However, corneas, heart valves, and skin or bone may still be donated. Why canât they be donated? Because, for organs to be donated, they have to be alive. If your brain is dead, it doesnât necessarily mean that everything else is. Your organs need to stay alive if they are going to be transplanted into someone else. People are depending on the people who tick the box and die in the right situation to live. Well, not so much anymore.
With all our new technology, medical experts have introduced live donors. Living people donating one of their organs. Well a kidney or piece of liver anyway. Firstly, they will match the blood type and they can undergo the operation of getting a piece of a vital organ and donating it to a much loved friend or family member.
When a loved one dies, and their organs can be donated, a lot of people are still in great shock. They get asked if they would consider donating and if they say yes, they just leave it at that (well the family). But the OPTN (organ procurement and transplant network) has a huge job. They need to search for matching recipients. They manage the Australia-New Zealand organ donation database of all the patients in Australia and New Zealand. They must match the donor and recipient by blood type and tissue type.
After they matched up the donor to the recipients, they had around about 6-10 hours to get the organs into the recipient. The young girl had only three major scars. A âYâ shape. She donated all her organs and saved six lives.
Although not everyone is suitable for organ donation, I think everyone should consider it. Itâs a way that we can save lives even after our own is over. That young girl, Ayla, was influenced by her cousin who was just our age when she died of leukaemia. No-one would donate for her. I think everyone should talk to their mum, dad or friends about organ donation. Itâs an amazing thing and we should all think and try to help change the future.


for a school competition

Answer
I don't know of any bike helmet that would scatter like that.

Here are some facts that may make your speech even
more interesting.

In the USA:
1)When someone is to be declared brain dead, testing is done
to prove this and two doctors outside of the Transplant Team
(with no connection to it) would have to sign papers stating
this is so. The patient would be kept on life support to keep
oxygen and blood reaching the organ.
2)If someone wants to be an organ donor after they die, In
the USA, they should tell their parents or relatives about it...
as in some areas, they relative could stop the donation of all organs.
Some relatives don't want their loved ones to donate organs
when they are brain dead, they want them to wait until they
remove all the life support and see if the heart stops beating.
This is the only way they know for certain their loved one
has passed on. However, waiting till the heart stops beating
means the organ may become more damaged because
of lack of blood and oxygen reaching it...but, if the life support
is started right away..it still could be used for transplant.
3)Most Transplant Centers recommend living donors to be
18 years of age or older. Some exceptions are made if
a relative wants to donate younger than this because
another relative need to live..The transplant team and the
parents have to approve of it.
However, there is an evaluation process that the
recipient goes through (of seeing many doctors and
having much testing done) to be placed on the Transplant
list. A Living donor is also required to go through a similar
process in order to give their organ. Even though a
recipient has a living donor, they still have to go through
the process to be placed on the list because a donor can
back out of giving the organ at any time.
4)Different organs have different time periods that they can
be out of the body and transplanted:
Heart 4-6 hours
Lungs 4-6 hours
Pancreas 12-24 hours
Liver 12-24 hours
Intestine 12-24 hours
Kidneys 48-72 hours
Just because someone is willing to give their organ(after death)
doesn't mean that the organ will be used. The Transplant Team is
notified an organ has become available. The surgeons
check the organ to see what condition it is in and can refuse
it if it is not suitable for transplantation. Remember, the organ
is not new, it has been in someone elses body and may have
growths, tumors, or be damaged in some other ways by
hereditary conditions, disease, etc.

Best wishes on your speech
.

Ride on bike trailer?

jake

I wanted to make a trailer for my bike and my bike is sturdy enough to hold it and keep it steady but i want to know if it is legal in new Zealand for people to ride on the back on the trailer... as long as they have a helmet on and be able to ride on the road. is it?

Answer
"Bike rack" - or tow a bike? You can NOT tow a person on a bike.

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