Organ Donation

Follow the links below to find information on organ or tissue donation.

For information on transplants, blood donation or blood transfusion, follow the links to the specific HealthInsite topic pages below.

Reviewed August 2011

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Transplants

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Links to information on all types of transplantation, including bone marrow, heart, kidney, liver and stem cell transplants, and also xenotransplantation.

Blood Donation

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Links to information about donating blood.

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Title:   Medicare Australia
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   Medicare home page, delivering health and payment programs to Australians
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Australian Organ Donor Register
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   The Australian Organ Donor Register is Australia's only national organ and tissue donor register and serves as a lifeline to the people on those waiting lists.
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   New Resource to Get Australians Talking About Donation Wishes
Publisher:   HealthInsite Editorial Team
Description:   A new resource to help Australians overcome barriers to discussion about organ and tissue donation was today launched by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Australian Organ Donor Register
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   Information on who can register, why donate and how the register works.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Media release. Know your family members organ and tissue donation wishes, OK?
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   All Australians are being encouraged to know the organ and tissue donation wishes of their loved ones in a compelling new television campaign announced today by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Organ donation
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The Organ Donor Registry in Australia allows people to formally register their wish to donate their organs after they die. Authorised hospital staff may check the register to see if you wish to donate organs or body tissue. Organs and tissue that can be donated include the kidney and liver, heart and lungs, pancreas, skin and corneas.
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Organ donation
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Organ donation may be a possibility for some palliative care patients who have died. Suitability for organ donation is determined after death has occurred and each case needs to be assessed individually, as there are usually restrictions.
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Proposed standards and Code of GMP for human blood and blood components, human tissues and human cellular therapies
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Consultation on a draft Code of GMP, an infectious diseases standard and four tissue-specific standards. Closing date: 12 February 2010
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Organ and tissue donation
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Organ donation is a procedure in which one person receives organs or tissues from another person. These organs are transplanted into the person in hospital to save or improve the quality of his or her life.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Ethical issues
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   This section of the site contains information about the many ethically significant and complex issues relating to human health and research. AHEC has considered, or is currently considering, a number of these issues. Information on some of these issues, with links to documents produced by AHEC or the NHMRC more broadly, is provided below.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Bone marrow harvest versus peripheral stem cell collection for haemopoietic stem cell donation in healthy donors
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood stem cells are collected from a donor in two ways: either through a bone marrow harvest (direct retrieval of the stem cells from the donor's hip bones, under general anaesthetic) or a peripheral blood stem cell collection (retrieval of stem cells ...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Organs retained at autopsy - ethical and practical issues
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   Advice to the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Dr Michael Wooldridge, covering the practical and ethical issues of organs retained at autopsy without permission from next-of-kin.
Date:   Aug 2001

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