title: [Standard process of organ procurement].
abstract: As revised Japanese Organ Transplantation Law was issued on 17th July, 2010, standard process of organ procurement after brain death was changed as follows. After the patient is determined clinically brain dead, a doctor may tell his or her relatives the opportunity of organ donation and ask them whether they want to listen organ procurement by JOT coordinators. If they want to do so and to donate organs, brain death is determined by legally regulated method. Around this period, his or her organs are evaluated whether they are transplantable or not. After the patient was legally sentenced brain dead, transplant recipients are selected and procurement teams are sent from transplant centers. Organ function is evaluated again by procurement teams and then organs are procured and transplanted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplantation Medicine, Osaka University Hospital.
authors.forename: Norihide
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fukushima
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*