This document was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society of Critical Care
Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Association of Organ …

Organ transplantation continues to be hindered by a limited supply of organs. A significant
percentage of potential organ donors are lost to either medical failure or inability to obtain …

Purpose The shortage of organs for transplantation is an important medical and societal
problem because transplantation is often the best therapeutic option for end-stage organ …

The success of any donation process requires that potential brain-dead donors (PBDD) are
detected and referred early to professionals responsible for their evaluation and conversion …

Background Donation after cardiac death is a method by which severely neurologically
injured patients not fulfilling brain-death criteria can donate organs. Objective To develop an …

The aim was to explore how relatives and physicians understood cases where organ
donation had been requested and what factors were salient for the decision on donation …

Objective: Organ donation after cardiac death will save lives by increasing the number of
transplantable organs. But many healthcare providers are reluctant to participate when the …

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 …

Abstract Federal Conditions of Participation from the Health Care Financing Administration
(now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) introduced in 1998 require that all …

BACKGROUND: Critical care nurses and physicians usually care for those patients whose
condition progresses to brain death and are also often responsible for requesting organ …