Which of the Following Is a Case in Which a Transplant

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a case in which a transplant team should decline an individual's offer to donate an organ to another individual?

• A) The donor is not related to the person who will receive the organ.
• B) The monetary cost of the transplant and of treating any accompanying side effects for the donor or recipient is too high.
• C) The donor is a close friend or spouse of the recipient and is thus too emotionally involved with the recipient.
• D) The donation will involve others in directly causing the death of the donor.

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Definitions:

Digit-Span

A common memory test that measures the capacity of one's short-term memory to recall a sequence of numbers.

Short-Term Memory

A component of memory where small amounts of information can be stored for a short period of time.

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Short-Term Memory

The part of the memory system where information is stored for a short duration, typically seconds to minutes, before it is either forgotten or transferred to long-term memory.