I agree with you.
When people donate their organs and if they are on life support, do they remove the organs while that patient is still alive after they are removed from life support? I have always wondered how this is done.
If someone is declared brain dead, and he or his family have agreed to organ donation, life support - ventilator, IV fluids, blood pressure supporting drugs - continues until the surgeons remove organs. The donor is anesthetized, not because the doctors believe he feels pain, but to eliminate physiological stress responses that could damage the organs.
Brain death is still a controversial concept to many people.
There is also donation after cardiac death, where someone does not meet brain death criteria, but the family or patient wishes to stop treatment. In this case, the ventilator is stopped, and the organs removed after the heart stops.
When people donate their organs and if they are on life support, do they remove the organs while that patient is still alive after they are removed from life support? I have always wondered how this is done.
Yes. They have to keep blood pumping as long as possible.
If a persons blood is no longer oxygenated and circulating, vital organs will not be harvested for transplant.
They may remove the cornea, or sections of skin for a limited time after the oxygenated blood is no longer circulating.
They do.
Many organs are removed before death. They have to be.
Just remember that when you sign your donor card. Also, remember that in many states, you are automatically a donor.