Does your Drivers Licence tag you as an organ donor? That pretty much means they are doing a "Slow Code" on you when you show up in the ER...
Ok, so you are in the prime of your life and you decide that if you are in a fatal car crash you want to be noble and donate any usable body parts to those that need them. You answer "Yes" at the DMV when asked if you want to be an organ donor and they label you drivers licence as such.
Now the reality of what you have done...
Yes, if you are in that fatal crash and someone checks your ID they will take you to the nearest hospital and inform your family that you are an organ donor and that you will be quickly carved up to help those in need of transplants just as you wanted to happen. But... chances are that most of us will die in an ER or withering away in a hospital bed. Take this as fact from someone who has seen so many dead and dying that the numbers are un-countable.
Given this, when you show up in the ER because your heart stopped or you are in the Hospital Intensive Care Unit and your heart decides to give up and you are identified as an organ donor, a quick assessment of your general "usability" will be done, the nearest donor facility will be notified and a "slow code" will be done.
What is a "slow code"? Well, that is when the thumping on your chest is done very slowly and just enough medication is given to keep you somewhat alive so the eventual outcome WILL be your death. No heroic measures are done in your behalf.
Just before your death or shortly after, a pair of individuals will arrive with coolers. Yes, that's right...Coleman coolers. They will stand outside the area and wait for the time of death to be stated and then you will become the donor that you signed up to be.
I don't know about you, but if I do not go out in that fiery car crash or shot in head at the post office or mall... they better thump hard and fast on me as I have to get to work and pay some bills. Just something to think about...
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I don't know...what I have seen is the opposite...they don't really have the time at the outset to look too close at the organ donation deal.
Perhaps when they have the time to get information, then they will catch the organ donor info?
I am not shitting, I have NEVER been in a code where they did a "slow" code just because the person opted to be an organ donor....on people who you know were hopeless, but full codes, yeah, but organ donors?
Thanks for the comment, I am guessing we are both in similar fields. Dave
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