Estimating the non-heart-beating donor potential at a trauma center.
The number of people awaiting a life-saving transplant far outweighs the number of organs available for transplantation. Our organ procurement organization sought to identify the non-heart-beating donor potential at a large urban level 1 trauma center. We modified the death-record reviews for a 2-year period and determined that a total of 23 patients who expired were suitable for non-heart-beating donation. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that if all large urban level 1 trauma centers participated in non-heart-beating donation, more organs would be available for transplantation.
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D001926:Brain Death; D002102:Cadaver; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009820:Ohio; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D014193:Trauma Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States