Care and co-ordination of the transplant programme.

Abstract

I am concerned with transplants in general, what you and I can do about them and indeed whether we should do anything at all. Potential donors worry that if they are involved in a terminal illness, need to be put on "a life support machine", and are carrying a donor card, someone will turn it off before they are dead! This is far from the truth, it is more likely that if you are known to be willing to donate organs at death, the machine is likely to be left on longer than would normally be the case.