Posted on 11/28/2022 11:44:13 AM PST by aimhigh
The number of organ donations and organ transplants goes up markedly during large motorcycle rallies, according to a newly published analysis led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
The research, which appears Nov. 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine, shows that in the regions where the seven largest motorcycle rallies were held throughout the United States between 2005 and 2021, there were 21 percent more organ donors per day, on average, and 26 percent 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 donation is often called the gift of life, and we should make sure that we do not squander it and can turn any of these tragic deaths into a chance to potentially save other lives,” added Cron, who is also a research fellow at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is part of a group interested in understanding how policy decisions and other factors, both inside and outside of the health care system, affect efforts to improve the supply of organs for transplantation.
Using data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients for deceased organ donors age 16 years and older involved in a motor vehicle crash and recipients of organs from those donors from March 2005 to September 2021, the researchers estimated changes in the incidence of donation and transplants in regions that hosted rallies.
Researchers analyzed records from 10,798 organ donors and 35,329 recipients in the regions where the featured motorcycle rallies take place. During the days on which rallies were held, there were 406 organ donors and 1,400 transplant recipients in regions near the events. During the four weeks before and after the rallies, there were 2,332 organ donors and 7,714 transplant recipients in those locations.
What about any average weekend in Chicago or Baltimore?
Outlaw them scooters, now. In other news, deer population drops during hunting season. Fkn idiots
Homies don’t make good organ donors.
LOL!! Being a member of the Broken Angels Motorcycle Club, I know exactly why.
Uhmmm....excuse me, but having been acquainted with many of these folks in the past, I’m not sure which of their organs might be of use to the next in line.....
Hence the term “donorcycles”.....
Just a coincidence......................
And due to fentanyl. We’ve had quite a few this year. Patients who were resuscitated, but brain dead.
Organs full of holes aren’t very useful......................
Motorcycling is great..until it’s not.
Maybe it’s not the riders, but the victims they leave behind in their swath.
Hooligan ping
So if donations go up in the neighborhoods where, and when, speed freeks congregate I guess I’d want to know if donations also drop in the places where the freeks are from?
You can’t fix stoopid just by counting it but you can move it around by throwing a party.
Would you want a donated organ that’s full of illicit drugs and VD organisms?
Fascists. Fascists everywhere.
>> Would you want a donated organ that’s full of illicit drugs and VD organisms?
It may lessen the chance of rejection.🥴
Sturgis attendance in the last decade is estimated between 500,000 and 800,000 per year.
Meade County, were the town of Sturgis is, has a normal population of about 30,000 according to the 2020 census.
Aren’t statistics fun?
what a crock of shit...
If anything goes up its the revenue that is generated in the host city and any charities that are connected...
Bikes, like guns and submarines, punish the smallest mistakes all out of proportion to the initial event.
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