Development of a successful non-heart-beating organ donation program

Autor:	Mark Reiner, Richard J. Howard, Danielle L. Cornell
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Organ procurement organization Transplantation medicine.medical_specialty Organ procurement business.industry medicine Economic shortage Organ donation Intensive care medicine business Surgery
Zdroj:	Progress in Transplantation. 13:225-231
ISSN:	2164-6708 1526-9248
DOI:	10.7182/prtr.13.3.k4g2m65230873w7h
Popis:	To help alleviate the organ shortage, transplant centers are using organs from expanded-criteria donors, who were considered unsuitable just a few years ago, such as non-heart-beating donors. In 1998, we made a concerted effort to increase the number of non-heart-beating donors recovered by our organ procurement organization. In this paper, we discuss the steps in establishing this program, including transplant center support, estimating the number of potential non-heart-beating donors, organ procurement support, protocol development, hospital development, education, putting the protocol into practice, follow-up, and effect of the program on organ procurement. With the establishment of this program, the number of non-heart-beating donors increased from 2% to 5% per year to over 10% for the past 2 years. From these donors, 61 of 82 recovered kidneys were transplanted into 58 patients, and 18 of 20 recovered livers were transplanted. A non-heart-beating donor program can significantly add to the number of o...
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