A 17-year-old patient is declared brain dead after a motor vehicle accident in which he sustained a liver laceration, severe subdural hematoma, and high cervical spinal cord injury. The parents have decided to donate their son’s organs. Which statement by the nurse is appropriate?

“Your son’s lungs will be helping a new person breathe in no more than 6 hours after they are procured.”. Donated heart and lungs must be transplanted within 4-6 hours of removal from the donor. Although some heart recipients allow their loved ones to listen to the new heart beat at some point, the nurse must not provide false hope to the grieving parents. Each organ donor may save as many as 8 people, not 15, but they will better the lives of many others. The patient’s liver is likely not viable for donation due to the laceration.

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