Question

Another person in the US joins the national organ transplant waiting list every

10 minutes. Each day, about 80 people receive organ transplants.
Organ
Percent of total
number of people
on the waiting list
Percent of
transplants
performed
Kidney
83.7
%
57.9
Liver
11.6
%
22.6
%
Heart
3.3%
9.33
%
US Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation
Figure 2 US Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation
Lung
1.2%
22. What do you think communities and organizations can do
people to register to become organ donors?
Answer:
6.9%
20. There were 36,518 organ transplants performed in 2018. How many heart
transplants were performed?
Answer:
21. At the current rate, how many people will join the organ transplant waiting
list each hour? each day? each year?
Answer:
ourage
Other
1.5%
3.2%

Answer 1

There were approximately 3,407 heart transplants performed in 2018. Every hour, 6 people join the organ transplant waiting list. This amounts to 144 people daily and about 52,560 annually.

Step-by-step explanation:

Communities and organizations can take several steps to encourage people to register as organ donors:

Organize awareness campaigns to educate people about the importance of organ donation and the impact it can have on saving lives.

Collaborate with hospitals and healthcare providers to simplify the registration process and make it more accessible to potential donors.

Partner with schools and universities to include organ donation education in their curriculum and encourage students to become advocates for organ donation.

Use social media and online platforms to spread awareness, share personal stories of organ recipients, and provide easy registration links.

According to the provided data, heart transplants account for 9.33% of the total number of transplants performed. If there were 36,518 organ transplants performed in 2018, the number of heart transplants can be calculated as 9.33% of 36,518. To find this, you multiply 36,518 by 0.0933, which equals approximately 3,407 heart transplants performed in 2018.

For the organ transplant waiting list, with a new person joining every 10 minutes, we can calculate the number of people joining per hour by multiplying 6 (as there are 60 minutes in an hour) by 1, which equals 6 people per hour.

To find the daily number, we multiply this hourly figure by 24 (the number of hours in a day), resulting in 144 people per day. For a yearly figure, we multiply the daily number (144) by 365 (the number of days in a year), which results in approximately 52,560 people joining the organ transplant waiting list every year.