Objective: Many organ procurement organizations have implemented critical care end points
as donor management goals in efforts to increase organs transplanted per donor after …

As of August 2007, 96 900 people are awaiting organ transplantation in the United States,
while only 28 930 transplants were performed in 2006. With such a large gap between …

The need for organ donation has become a growing concern over that last decade as the
gap between organ donors and those awaiting transplant widens. According to UNOS, as of …

Background Aggressive management of patients prior to and after determination of death by
neurologic criteria (DNC) is necessary to optimize organ recovery, transplantation, and …

Successful organ transplantation offers patients with end stage organ failure the chance of a
normal life. The recognition of brain death allowed the use of beating heart donors and this …

Organ procurement (OP) from donors after brain death and circulatory death represents the
primary source of transplanted organs. Despite favorable laws and regulations, OP …

Background Diabetes insipidus is common among brain-dead donors and may lead to
decreased graft function. The use of desmopressin to limit the consequences of diabetes …

Objectives 1. To document the clinical course of paediatric beating heart organ donors. 2. To
evaluate the effect of the ICU management of pediatric donors on the immediate function of …

OBJECTIVE--By audit from January to June 1989 to quantify, separately for hearts, kidneys,
liver, lungs and corneas, the possible increases in transplantable organs from brain stem …

Background. In a recent single-center study, donor use of catecholamines was identified to
reduce kidney allograft rejection. This study investigates the effects of donor employment of …