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    Organ Donations, Organ Transplants Increase During Large Motorcycle Rallies: Study

    Organ Donations
    Inam Ansari
    November30/ 2022

    Washington: A new study has revealed that organ donations and transplants have increased during large motorcycle rallies. The study was published in the journal, 'JAMA Internal Medicine'. The study has shown that in the regions where the seven largest motorcycle rallies were held throughout the United States between 2005 and 2021, there were 21 per cent more organ donors per day, on average, and 26 per cent more transplant recipients per day, on average, during these events, compared with days just before and after the rallies. Large-scale motorcycle rallies attract hundreds of thousands of attendees, and previous studies have shown that these events are accompanied by increases in traumatic injuries and deaths from motor vehicle crashes. For the new study, the researchers wanted to know whether these events corresponded to increases in organ donation and transplantation in the regions where they were held. The researchers posed several questions, including whether organ donations rose along with trauma-related fatalities. They did. Also, was there a difference in the quality of organs donated due to clinical or demographic differences in donors during rallies. There wasn't. "The spikes in organ donations and transplantations that we found in our analysis are disturbing, even if not entirely surprising, because they signal a systemic failure to avoid preventable deaths, which is a tragedy," said study first author David Cron, HMS clinical fellow in surgery at Mass General. "There is a clear need for better safety protocols around such events." "At the same time, it is important for transplant communities in places where these events are held to be aware of the potential for increased organ donors during those periods. Organ donat ...

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