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  2. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    54-1327878 [2]: Legal status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2] Headquarters: Richmond, Virginia, U.S. [3]: Coordinates: Services: Manages the U.S. organ transplant system under contract with the federal government by bringing together transplant and organ procurement professionals and volunteers in order to make life-saving organ transplants possible.

  3. Organ procurement organization - Wikipedia

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    Once the OPO receives authorization for donation from the decedent's family or through first-person authorization (such as a state or national Donor Registry), it works with UNOS to identify the best candidates for the available organs, and coordinates with the surgical team for each organ recipient.

  4. Organ donation - Wikipedia

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    The National Donor Monument, Naarden, the Netherlands Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin.

  5. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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    If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]

  6. In Texas, can someone change the donor status on your ... - AOL

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    Now I have to unregister as a donor. I’m a cancer patient and have never been a donor.” Donate Life Texas is the official organ, eye and tissue donor registry for the state of Texas. Chad ...

  7. Transplant coordinator - Wikipedia

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    Donor coordinators are called when a potential organ donor meets criteria for donating organs (for example, severe neurological injury with lack of brain stem reflexes or brain death). The coordinator will complete an on site review of the donors medical records and begin the process of placing organs with recipients if the donor is a candidate.

  8. Category:Organ donation - Wikipedia

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  9. Southwest Transplant Alliance - Wikipedia

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    STA allocates donated organs and manages their recovery, preservation, and transportation in between donation and transplantation. [2] It has processed over 22,000 organs since its founding. The organization serves 11 transplant centers and over 280 hospitals in various areas of Texas, including Dallas, El Paso , Galveston , and Texarkana .