25 Years of Organ Donations Equal 2.2M Years of Saved Lives

A recently published study in Jama Surgery entitled Survival Benefit of Solid-Organ Transplant in the United States calculated the life saving impact of organ donations. According to the study, organ transplants done in the last 25 years in America have given the gift of an additional 2.2 million years of life. On average a single organ transplant results in an additional 4.3 years of life to the recipient.

See Arden Dier, Newser, Organ Donors Have Added 2.2M Years to American Lives, Fox News, Jan. 30, 2015.