Organ Transplants
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Organ transplants are useful for a number of reasons. Terminally ill patients can be saved from dying young, or just can save someone's life who is in desperate need of a new organ. As with everything in life, many risks are taken, from the organ being rejected to infection starting and eventually killing the person.
To perform an organ transplantation you will need a highly skilled team of surgeons, their role is to keep the organ functioning until the new one arrives, to carefully take the organ out of the body and to connect the blood vessels, etc. Once the surgeons have connected the new organ to the organ recipient the organ should start to function almost immediately if not an electric shock might have to be given. The operation involves the team of highly skilled and trained surgeons, many hours work and a new organ. The old organ is carefully extracted from the body, sometimes meaning the recipient is in need of a machine to assist the organ which is missing. The new organ is eventually brought in, and attached to blood vessels, or other vessels using stitches. Sometimes the body will reject the organ, this is known to the doctors soon after the operation if this happens there is not a lot that can be done, unless it is a kidney, where the patient can be put on a haemodialysis machine. If rejection does not occur, and the body accepts the organ, the patient still needs to take several medications...