Solid organ transplantation of the heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, and bowel evolved
over the past half century because of the refinement of surgical techniques and …

Background: The organ supply shortage continues to be a public health care crisis, with
nearly 20 people dying each day awaiting transplantation. Inability to obtain consent …

The status of deceased organ donation is assessed using metrics such as
donation/conversation rate, organ yield, and rate of organs recovered for transplant and not …

Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. A
variety of approaches have been implemented to expand the organ donor pool including …

A retrospective review of 114 solid organ donors over a 6-year period (1982–1987) was
undertaken to identify problems in organ donor management and determine outcome of …

The brain dead patient is the ideal multiorgan donor. Conversely, brain death (BD) is an
undesirable outcome of critical care medicine. Conditions that can lead to the state of BD are …

SRTR uses data collected by OPTN to calculate metrics such as donation/conversion rate,
organ yield, and rate of organs recovered for transplant but not transplanted. In 2014, 9252 …

The study purpose was to identify risks, benefits and costs associated with an expanded
donor protocol. The protocol design evaluated organs rescued using expanded donor …

Aims To identify reports of patients who underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
prior to solid organ donation and compare recipient and organ function outcomes to those …

In 2011, the number of eligible deaths (death of a patient aged 70 years or younger who is
legally declared brain dead and does not exhibit any excluding factors) was 9023, a slight …