CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1984
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Board to discuss changes in policy at residence halls
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
KU students won't know until the fall whether they will be able to have overnight guests of the opposite sex in their residence hall rooms, after a KU housing board committee decision on policy changes this summer.
The Residential Programs Advisory Board yesterday formed a committee of four students and four faculty representatives.
The board first considered changing the visitation policy, which now allows residents to have guests of the opposite sex in their rooms with their roommates' consent, in January, but delayed action on the board's first proposal until James Jeffley, president of the Association of University Residence Halls presented students' reaction.
The board's proposal, written by Caryl Smith, dean of student life, Fred McElienbe, director of residential programs and J. W. Wilson, director of housing, would prohibit residents from having guests of the opposite sex in private areas of the hall during security hours.
Organ bank network finds donors
By CHRIS CLEARY
Staff Reporter
A two-year-old might die within a few days unless someone donates a liver.
An urgent message remains fixed on the computer of the United Network of Organ Sharing, a national organization of organ banks, and the people at the Midwest Organ Bank, Kansas City, Mo., are anxiously waiting for a donor.
However, Jim Springer, supervisor of the organ bank, is doubtful that an organ will become available for the girl on such short notice.
"There is a lack of suitable donors"
"Springer said. "We don't have every"
"one."
THIS WEEK IS Organ Donor Week, and the people at the organ bank are especially concerned with the lack of donors.
"Maybe the little girl has gotten a transplant," Springer sighed. "But there's only a certain amount we can do and a certain amount of luck."
springer paused, and leaned against a wall dotted with newspaper clippings that tell of successful transplants. He tapped a pen gently on the palm of his hand and looked up at the ceiling, collecting his thoughts.
"It's unfortunate that someone dies for someone to live," he said. "But that person will have a place to live."
donates or not. At least there is the opportunity to make some gift out of death."
THE PROCESS OF transplanting organs begins with a phone call from an intensive care unit or an emergency room, signaling the arrival of a potential donor. Barbara Steinemt, coordinator for the organ bank, said.
"The potential donor has to be alive on arrival at the hospital," she said. "When it gets to the point where the person is not going to make it, then they call us."
A person is legally dead when there is no heartbeat or brain function, even through artificial circulation, Steinmetz said.
The bank will not remove organs from the potential donor if the family refuses permission to operate, regarding the potential donor had sued a release form.
The back of a Kansas driver's license shows such a form, which must be signed by the driver.
AFTER WRITTEN CONSENT from the family and an official death certificate is obtained from the hospital, the donor is kept on a respirator to keep the blood circulating, and to prevent the organs from dying.
The organ bank then plugs into a national computer that lists people who need kidneys, hearts and livers, Steinmetz said.
Two verbal computer systems are programmed to answer the phones, find the donors blood type and the donor's type of organ to be donated. Springer said.
Organ retrievals are done in an operating room like any surgical room.
After the organs are removed from the donor, they are flushed out with a solution that slows the metabolism and boost freezing the organ. Steinmeyer said.
The organs are placed in a sterile container, wrapped in sterile bags and set in a cooler of ice to be transported to the recipient.
THE ORGAN, which can last only four to six hours outside of the body, is sewn into the recipient within five to ten minutes after arrival, Steinmeyt said.
Although kidney transplants cost from $30,000 to $200,000, Springer said they were less expensive than being on dialysis for a year.
"Kidneys are brought to the organ bank along with blood, lymph nodes and the spleen to do tissue typing." Steimett said.
Tissue typing enables the organ bank to match donors through looking at chromosomes on white blood cells; trim nodes and the spleen, Stimmetz stress test.
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