Mobile Blood and Organ Donation Management System

Organ donation breakthrough collaborative: increasing organ donation through system redesign.

Virginia McBride and Jade Perdue are public health analysts in the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Md. Organ donation saves lives. The use of organ transplantation to treat people with end-stage organ failure is both medically effective and cost-effective and is now considered mainstr...

The ongoing charity of organ donation. Contemporary English Sunni fatwas on organ donation and blood transfusion.

BACKGROUND Empirical studies in Muslim communities on organ donation and blood transfusion show that Muslim counsellors play an important role in the decision process. Despite the emerging importance of online English Sunni fatwas, these fatwas on organ donation and blood transfusion have hardly been studied, thus creating a gap in our knowledge of contemporary Islamic views on the subject. M...

Selective vehicle routing for a mobile blood donation system

In this study, a mobile blood collection system is designed with the primary objective of increasing blood collection levels. This design also takes into account operational costs to aim for collection of large amounts of blood at reasonable cost. Bloodmobiles perform direct tours to certain activities to collect blood, but at the end of each day, they bring the collected blood to a designated ...

Organ donation.

Transplantation is now an established form of treatment for organ failure in childhood. Much has been published on the outcome and management of children with organ transplants, the ethical issues have been widely discussed, and the criteria for the diagnosis of brain death have been established. Most transplanted organs are taken from donors who are brain dead but have a circulation and are be...

Organ donation and transplantation