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Organ Donation
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Transplantation
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Organ Donation Vocabulary

"Recover" is better than "Harvest"
"Ventilator" or "Mechanical Support" is better than "Life Support" as donors are dead.
"Deceased Donor" is better than "Cadaver"

*Important -
Donors are not disconnected from "life support" because donors are
deceased...so there's no life to support.

Organs must have an oxygen supply up until they are recovered for
transplant.

So families of organ donors do not have to disconnect the ventilator. That
is done in the operating room just before organs are recovered.