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Wednesday, April 28, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Donations Increase Under New Law
Bodies Banked at Medical Center
The medical Center is not now doing heart transplants nor are they considering this surgical procedure. Because of this it is not possible to perform the would be for surgery at the Medical Center, Matzke said.
By ROBERT W. PATRICK Kansan Staff Writer
However, the Medical Center does frequent kidney transplants, skin grafts, and bone transplants, he said.
KANAS CITY, Kan.-Onece, donating your body to medical science was not easy, but under the guidance of Dr. Erik passed by the Kansas Legislature in 1968 some restrictions have been lifted. Before the passage of the law, he could only obtain permission of the deceased's family before the body could be used. The donor had no say in what he wanted to do with his body.
"Today, when one wills his body to a medical school it is the day before." The school will do with it what can be done at the time and under the conditions that the body is healthy. "And I said, if it is received 24 hours late it will be used only for our own study-teaching or internship."
"Now, the body is just like money, and you can do what you want with it," said Dr. Howard Matzke, chairman of the department of Anatomy at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"The time for transplants is limited," Markie said. "The eye, for example, can only be used for maybe four to six hours."
unit was put in service there could be an increased demand for skin crafts.
Matzke said that once the burn
"When one wills his body to a medical school, it's the school's to do as it sees fit."
He said that although the transplants of eyes, kidneys, hearts, skin and bone are more glamorous, the most common use is for a transplanted heart. It is not so obvious, is in training of physicians and other persons. About 40 bodies are used at the Medical Center each year for this purpose.
The form used by the Medical Center still has a place for the next-of-kim to sign releasing the body. But, Matzke said this was no longer necessary. The reason it was left on the form was that so much time was required that the deceased's wishes so that those wishes could be carried out.
ABOUT 75 PER CENT of bodies used in the Medical Center are willed bodies. The remaining 25 per cent are unclaimed bodies from other sources. Matzek said that the only unclaimed bodies are those sent to the Medical Center are occasional ones from state institutions.
When one makes the decision to donate his body to medical school, he may be asked to attend a Medical Center or any school of medicine and the necessary training.
"IF ONE should die at a distant place then rather than transport the body back to Kansas City, it would be sent to a local medical school in the area where death occurred. Mohin
MATZKE SAID many people did not bother to fill out the "Release by Next of Kin" section of the form willing the body. I found it weird that you know so that arrangements can be made for the Medical Center
"When we are finished with the bodies, we createm the remains." Mohn said, "There is usually about a one year wait. If we have to deal with the ashes of we will be glad to accommodate them. We bury the rest. If the family has expressed the desire for the multi-environmental service inform them when ashes are to be buried."
to receive the body. This can be an attorney, minister, physician, spouse, or anybody. But someone must know what the wishes of the deceased are or he may end up in a memorial or against his memory.
Once the necessary legal procedures have been completed, Medical Center will well-wish card listing the donor's wishes. If for any reason one changes his mind he has only 24 hours to decide what that it is preferred that the Medical Center also be notified so that it can return the will and card.
He said that the things which could be used relatively routinely are the eyes, kidneys, skin, temporary bone, and the body as a
ACORDING TO DR. Melvin Mohn, associate professor of anatomy, "The only way a doctor can be able to understand regardless of how the new curriculum or curricula are evolved, is by sometime directly seeing what it's inside a body. He has to see it how he put together so that he will know what he is talking about. Modus are good, but seeing is hard."
Mohn said that while the body might be worth about $3.60 chemically, its real value could not be calculated because donations could, for example, provide eyes so that someone sees it. This she could must be measured in terms of large amounts.
Mahn said, "medical schools went from grave snatching to laws for unclaimed bodies. Then they provided for burial. Then longevity became greater, and we are a more affluent society than a few years ago. For this reason we are fewer unclaimed bodies."
"The INTEREST in willing one's body has become so great," Mohn said. "that we have had to employ a full-time secretary and a junior secretary to write individual personal letters but this is no longer possible."
According to statistics maintained by the department of maintenance, there were four hundred ninety-seven bodies willed to the Medical Center. In those where there were four hundred bodies, number has risen steadily until in 1907 three hundred ninety-eight bodies have risen faster than the year more than two hundred and fifteen bodies have been willed to burial. Insurances about donations of
bodies are answered with forms which outline what the Medical Center will do with the body. It is important that he will his eyes that he should contact K. E. Hyde, director of the M.D. Department. The address given is the University of Kansas medical Department, Kansas City, Kan.
"The interest in willing one's body has become so great we have to use form replies."
THE MEDICAL Center uses about 100 eyes per year, one-half of them are not used and are according to Dr. Hyde. He said that about 30 or 40 people are on the verge of losing their eyes.
Hyde said that an "Eye Bank Network" was maintained with
other hospitals throughout the country so that if an eye was received or needed the information could be put on the network and another school nurse or furnish the needed eye.
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