Background A new era in organ donation with national redistricting is being proposed. With
these proposals, costs of organ acquisition are estimated to more than double. Traditionally …

Background Donation after cardiac death (DCD) is one method of organ donation.
Nationally, more than half of evaluated DCD donors do not yield transplantable organs …

As of September 1999, 65,793 patients were on the US transplant waiting list, which
continues to grow at an average rate of 16% per year. 70, 71 In contrast, the availability of …

Introduction Recovery of donated organs at organ procurement organization (OPO)-based
recovery facilities has been proposed to improve organ donation outcomes, but few data …

Background Over the last decade two alternative models of donor care have emerged in the
United States: the conventional model, whereby donors are managed at the hospital where …

Background. Of the many logistic issues addressed throughout the cadaveric organ
donation process, timely access to the operating theater for surgical recovery of organs and …

Importance Availability of organs inadequately addresses the need of patients waiting for a
transplant. Objective To estimate the true number of donor patients in the United States and …

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

Aggressive donor management protocols have evolved to maximize the number of procured
organs. Our study assessed donor management time and the number and types of organs …

Background Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ
transplantation today. Use of more organs of marginal quality has been advocated to …