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• Alcoholic Card sort cut outs. 1 set per group of 3.
• Heart transplant cards- two separate half of set. Per group of 3.
Ethics and transplants
Objective: By the end of the lesson I will be able to… Analyse
points of view on whether everyone should get the same medical treatment, SO THAT…
Starter: Would you get an donate your organs if you died?
YES/NOProduce a:
Positive pointNegative point
Interesting point.
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Lesson success criteria?
Success Criteria
• Be able to discuss the ethics of organ transplants.
• Be able to discuss and balance arguments.
Lesson Menu
Deciding who should receive a transplant!
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Do you want your organs to be reused
after you die?
• Organ donation for transplants.• Whole body donation for medical
research.• Whole body donation to medical schools
for medical students.• Whole body donation to artists to be
transformed into works of art
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All donated kidneys!
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Transplant- take an organ and put inside another person.
Donor? The person who gives the organ.
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Alcohol and liver transplants…
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/alcohol-and-binge-drinking-the-harmful-effects/6028.html
• 01:47 mins
• Write one thing you found interesting!
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Liam’s case.
• Died 23 from Liver damage.• 10 years binge drinking.• Refused a transplant- couldn’t prove
he could stay clean.• Chart shows which way people would
have voted for him to get transplant.
Just Think- how would you vote? Questions next slide!
How would you have voted?
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So, should an alcoholic be given a new liver?
Sort your statements into FOR and Against a transplant in groups of 3.
THESE ARE NOT PRESORTED DESPITE DIFFERENT COLOUR SECTIONS!
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How would you have voted with all this extra information?
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Difficult decisions
Every year 100 patients die waiting for transplants because the supply of organs isn’t big enough.
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Doctors face difficult decisions in deciding who to give
transplants to:• There’s a certain criteria that patients
must fit:• What do you think these are? 2 minutes.
Tell me what you heard others saying.– Have similar tissues to the donor organ.– Be of similar ages.– Geographically close.– How ill the patient is.T
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Ethics - perceived rights or wrongs.
• Alcohol abusers– Liver disease
• Drug users– Blood infections - Hepatitis
• Clinically obese– Heart transplants– What caused the need in the first place?– Can they turn over a new leaf?
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Ethical decisions are hard
• Different people have different standards.
• Is alcohol addiction someone’s fault?
• Should 2nd chances be given?
• How do you value one life over another?
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Who’s likely to need a heart transplant?
• While you’re thinking… have a look at this..
• The cardiovascular system - heart and lung transplants.
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-cardiovascular-system-heart-and-lung-transplants/4291.html
Fred: 44 years’ old.
Mass: 34 stone - clinically obese
Good tissue match
Lives in Bath (2 hours away)
Been waiting for a transplant for 5 years.
Single, lives with 2 cats
Katie: 34 years’ old.
Mass: 9stone, 3lbs
Good tissue match.
Lives in Southampton (3 hours away)
A new addition to the transplant register.
Married, no children
Sarah: 55 Years’ old.
Mass: 10 stone, 7lbs
Mother of 3 children
Lives in Plymouth (1 hour away)
Poor tissue match.
Health deteriorating rapidly - needs a transplant within the next 6 months to survive.
Bertie: 14 years’ old.
Mass: 8 stone
Poor tissue match
Lives in Tiverton, 15 minutes away from Exeter.
Recent addition to the register.
Congenital heart-defect.
Helen: 34 years’ old
Mass: 28 stone - clinically obese
Good tissue match
Lives in South Wales
Been on the transplant list for 2 years
Married with no children.
Max: 85 years’ old
Mass: 11 stone, 8 lbs
Good tissue match
Healthy eater
Lives in Exeter - 5 minutes’ from the hospital.
Married with 4 children
Grab a new set (1st half only) of cards in your group of three.
Questions next slide.
Grab a new set (1st half only) of cards in your group of three.
Questions next slide.
There’s a heart up for grabs…
• Who’s going to get it? 3-4mins.
• Look at your cards and decide quickly.
• Is there any other information you’d like?
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Quick check!
• Hands up for the those voting…
• Fred/ Bertie/Helen/ Max/Katie/ Sarah.
How have your opinions changed?
• Who would get the heart and why?
• How have you prioritised the information?
• What other information would you like?
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Fred: 44 years’ old.
Has been losing weight for 4 years, and has reduced his weight by 12 stone already.
Weight issue is due to long-term thyroid illness, resulting in a suppressed metabolism.
Katie: 34 years’ old.
Has a hole in the heart - has been keeping it under control all her life but it’s starting to deteriorate.
Of Chinese origin
Sarah: 55 Years’ old.
Mass: 10 stone, 7lbs
50-a day smoker, and a self-confessed addict who does not want to give up.
Willing to donate £100,000 to British hear foundation
Bertie: 14 years’ old.
Mass: 8 stone
Has a congenital heart-defect, and without a transplant he will not survive the year.
Healthy eater, caring parents.
Tests show that he’s a smoker, although his parents don’t know…
Helen: 34 years’ old
Mass: 28 stone - clinically obese
Sufferer of an eating disorder where patients feel constantly hungry. Has undergone a stomach reduction (paid for by her self) to reduce the symptoms.
Determined to beat her illness, has been losing weight for 1 year.
Max: 85 years’ old
Mass: 11 stone, 8 lbs
Used to be clinically obese, and confesses that he abused his body in his formative years.
Recently suffered a stroke which adds a major risk to surgery.
2nd half of cards. Reevaluate your
decision.
2nd half of cards. Reevaluate your
decision.
Extension: Extension: Have a go at Have a go at creating a set of rules.creating a set of rules.
Who should get the heart transplant?Who should get the heart transplant?
Order any personal statements from top priority to low.Order any personal statements from top priority to low.
If you were the doctor in charge of giving it away, what would be your rules?If you were the doctor in charge of giving it away, what would be your rules?
Give a priority order and give reasons why.Give a priority order and give reasons why.
Remember Remember PointPoint Evidence Explain Evidence Explain and and CompareCompare
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Lesson success criteria? Record how you have met the
objective.Success Criteria
• Be able to discuss the ethics of organ transplants.
• Be able to discuss a balanced argument.
Lesson Menu
Deciding who should receive a transplant!
Objective: By the end of the lesson I will be able to… Analyse points of view on whether everyone should get the same medical treatment, SO THAT…
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Write one thing you learnt today on a post it note.
• On the back: Write one thing we need to go back over next lesson?
• Ideas- be specific!: • This lesson went really well because…• I know I met the objective because…• Today I learnt…• I struggled with…• I not so confident with…• I need more practice with…
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