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The Heart
Will Hallissey, Christian Ricchezza, and Kayla Inemer
Body System
The heart belongs to the circulatory system.
Location • The heart is located in the middle of the chest, between the two lungs.
Functions • The heart is a muscle that contracts continuously and regularly.
The heart pumps blood into the lungs and through the body.
• The pump action is caused by flow of
electricity through the heart that repeats itself in a cycle.
Transplants • There were 2,192 heart transplants in the U.S in 2006. • 2,125 heart transplants in 2005.
Success Rate •
In June 15, 2007 a one year survival rate for a transplant is 87.4% males and 85.5% females. A three year survival rate for males is 78.7% and for females 75.9%.
•
For a five year survival rate 72.3% males survived, while 67.6% females survived
Life Expectancy The life expectancy varies according to risk factors prior to the transplant.
people waiting •
•
Everyday about 4,000 people go on the waiting transplant.
Over the past year there have only been enough transplants to provide for 2,000 of them
Disqualified to Donate In order to be qualified to donate you must be at the legal age of sixteen and must weigh at minimum 110 pounds. Also, you must be healthy
Died Waiting •
About 600 people die each year waiting for heart transplant.
Required •
in order to be required for a transplant the heart must be irreversibly damaged by heart disease.
•
Also people with multiple heart attacks that cannot be treated are contendars for it or people that cannot perform it’s daily functions and are at risk to die
Disqualified to Receive •
People who are old in age Who have a history of cancer
•
Any active infections
•
Anyone with diabetes who damaged other organs Anyone with history of not being able to follow medical treatments
Two local hospitals that will carry out the heart transplant process is The University Of Pennsylvania Hospital and Jefferson Hospital
Hospitals
Surgical Procedure The heart transplant surgery itself takes about seven hours, but then you have to put into concideration if there will be and complications that may add some time.
Cost of Transplant
The cost of a heart transplant for the recipient will cost between $110,000 and $287,000 depending on the length of the stay, evaluation,organ procurement, hospital charges, physician fees and follow up care.
Cost to Remove The cost to remove a heart ranges from $110,000 to $287,000
There is such a big range in price because it all depends on the length of the stay, evaluation, organ procurement hospital charges, physician fees and follow up care.
Donor Dead or Alive For the transplant to take place the organ donor must be brain dead.
Anti-rejection •
The anti-rejection drugs used after transplants are also called immunosuppressive drugs.
•
One of these drugs is called sirolimus.
Restrictions • There are not many restrictions after the procedure
• After rehabilitation
you shall be able to go back to work and back to your normal life routines.
Post Operative Therapy
• The patient is taken to an intensive care unit to recover
• How long they remain in hospital
depends on post-transplant on the patient's general health
• Doctors typically like the new recipients to
leave hospitals soon after surgery because of the risk of infection in a hospital
• Once the patient is released, they will have to return to the hospital for regular check-ups
Work Cited
• www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/bio/bio-5.html • www.wayneheim.com/scripts/ivstock/pic.asp?id=118• www.sads.org.uk/heart_function.html • www.americanheart.org/presenter.html • www.revolutionhealth.com/articles/heart-transplantfo • www.kidney.org/atoz/atozitem.cfm?id=158
Will Hallissey, Christian Ricchezza, and Kayla Inemer
Body System
The heart belongs to the circulatory system.
Location • The heart is located in the middle of the chest, between the two lungs.
Functions • The heart is a muscle that contracts continuously and regularly.
The heart pumps blood into the lungs and through the body.
• The pump action is caused by flow of
electricity through the heart that repeats itself in a cycle.
Transplants • There were 2,192 heart transplants in the U.S in 2006. • 2,125 heart transplants in 2005.
Success Rate •
In June 15, 2007 a one year survival rate for a transplant is 87.4% males and 85.5% females. A three year survival rate for males is 78.7% and for females 75.9%.
•
For a five year survival rate 72.3% males survived, while 67.6% females survived
Life Expectancy The life expectancy varies according to risk factors prior to the transplant.
people waiting •
•
Everyday about 4,000 people go on the waiting transplant.
Over the past year there have only been enough transplants to provide for 2,000 of them
Disqualified to Donate In order to be qualified to donate you must be at the legal age of sixteen and must weigh at minimum 110 pounds. Also, you must be healthy
Died Waiting •
About 600 people die each year waiting for heart transplant.
Required •
in order to be required for a transplant the heart must be irreversibly damaged by heart disease.
•
Also people with multiple heart attacks that cannot be treated are contendars for it or people that cannot perform it’s daily functions and are at risk to die
Disqualified to Receive •
People who are old in age Who have a history of cancer
•
Any active infections
•
Anyone with diabetes who damaged other organs Anyone with history of not being able to follow medical treatments
Two local hospitals that will carry out the heart transplant process is The University Of Pennsylvania Hospital and Jefferson Hospital
Hospitals
Surgical Procedure The heart transplant surgery itself takes about seven hours, but then you have to put into concideration if there will be and complications that may add some time.
Cost of Transplant
The cost of a heart transplant for the recipient will cost between $110,000 and $287,000 depending on the length of the stay, evaluation,organ procurement, hospital charges, physician fees and follow up care.
Cost to Remove The cost to remove a heart ranges from $110,000 to $287,000
There is such a big range in price because it all depends on the length of the stay, evaluation, organ procurement hospital charges, physician fees and follow up care.
Donor Dead or Alive For the transplant to take place the organ donor must be brain dead.
Anti-rejection •
The anti-rejection drugs used after transplants are also called immunosuppressive drugs.
•
One of these drugs is called sirolimus.
Restrictions • There are not many restrictions after the procedure
• After rehabilitation
you shall be able to go back to work and back to your normal life routines.
Post Operative Therapy
• The patient is taken to an intensive care unit to recover
• How long they remain in hospital
depends on post-transplant on the patient's general health
• Doctors typically like the new recipients to
leave hospitals soon after surgery because of the risk of infection in a hospital
• Once the patient is released, they will have to return to the hospital for regular check-ups
Work Cited
• www.fi.edu/tfi/activity/bio/bio-5.html • www.wayneheim.com/scripts/ivstock/pic.asp?id=118• www.sads.org.uk/heart_function.html • www.americanheart.org/presenter.html • www.revolutionhealth.com/articles/heart-transplantfo • www.kidney.org/atoz/atozitem.cfm?id=158
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