How Do You Get A Lung Transplant Evaluation?
The United States averages only 1000 lung transplants in a year. There are not enough viable organs to go around and lung transplants are extremely expensive. Not everyone who is dying of lung failure can get a transplant. Transplant teams have to carefully consider the candidate’s chance of survival. Here’s how the evaluation process works. Check in at the hospital. The lung transplant evaluation will take approximately 3 days. Not every hospital performs lung transplants so you may have to travel, possibly to another state. Part of the evaluation process is determining how well a family deals with stress. If the candidate is a child, make sure at least one parent is there the entire time. Make yourself available for every test and interview, regardless of the inconvenience. During an evaluation, you might have to take some tests in the middle of the night when the hospital isn’t as busy. Organs will go to those candidates with the best chance of living close to a normal life afterwar
