Question about Organ Transplants

[no waiii]

Sorry you's are probley thinking this a bit of a weird Question, but say if someone gets knocked down and there declared brain dead and there life support is swiched of dose only there heart have to stop before there organs can be transplanted or dose the brain need to stop aswell?

Sorry its abit weird, but cause i was reading something on Skynews and it said that its law that the heart has to be stopped for 5Min before the transplant can go ahead but it said nothing about the brain.

[jackass]

I honestly have no idea.

But for your organs to be used as transplants, you need a donor card anyway.

[no waiii]

I know lol, unless a parent of yours allows it to happen, lol btw this is not about me LOL well thats kinda obv as i am typeing this :P

[Virgin Mary]

You can survive without a brain, that's what life support machines do, but not without blood being pumped around your body. That's why you're declared officially dead when your heart stops.

[whitebengal]

Once the heart stops...everything stops. It's the main organ!

[no waiii]

So if you was brain dead and they swiched of life support and you stopped breathing thats means your dead? and theres NO brain activity going on?

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Oh ok, thanks my question just got answered

Thanks

[Greed]

Sorry you's are probley thinking this a bit of a weird Question, but say if someone gets knocked down and there declared brain dead and there life support is swiched of dose only there heart have to stop before there organs can be transplanted or dose the brain need to stop aswell?

Sorry its abit weird, but cause i was reading something on Skynews and it said that its law that the heart has to be stopped for 5Min before the transplant can go ahead but it said nothing about the brain.


The brain does regulate much of the electrical synapses--etc. But the heart is what sends the blood to the organs. In order to have 'healthy' potentials for organ transplant, they need to be functional at the time they are removed, thus blood flow must be reaching the organs, etc.

Switching off life support for 5~ minutes is probably a safe 'time' so there won't be a 'bloody' mess and ensures that organs are functional.


My guess... :rolleyes:

[no waiii]

But he was brain dead and they swiched it of so that means there was no brain activity?

[whitebengal]

But he was brain dead and they swiched it of so that means there was no brain activity?

If the life support machine was switched off then that was probably because he would never recover and he would basically be just a vegetable. His heart would still be beating but there would have been no brain activity.

[no waiii]

If the life support machine was switched off then that was probably because he would never recover and he would basically be just a vegetable. His heart would still be beating but there would have been no brain activity.

Ok thanks, that made me feel better knowing he wasnt sorta alive :)
ill +rep when im uncautioned

[whitebengal]

Ok thanks, that made me feel better knowing he wasnt sorta alive :)
ill +rep when im uncautioned

lol Nah if you think about it, he couldn't think, hear, smell, speak, or see. All his senses and his abilities would have been "dead" once someone is brain dead there is no point to life. It wouldn't be fair on that person or their relatives.
He was literally a vegetable just lying there...Not knowing anything! :(

[no waiii]

thanks now i see why people swich them off, when i heard it was getting swiched of i was like omg -cry for week

[whitebengal]

thanks now i see why people swich them off, when i heard it was getting swiched of i was like omg -cry for week

awww! Well now ya know :) x