Sentences with phrase «deceased organ donations»

There is much demand for organs and a shortage of deceased organ donations.

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At a conference on transplantation last year sponsored by the American College of Legal Medicine, Thomas Starzl endorsed a policy of presumed consent, which allows physicians to retrieve organs unless the deceased opted out by specifically stating an opposition to organ donation prior to death.

The AST and ASTS leaders have conceived an «arc of change» that starts with immediate work to remove all financial disincentives to organ donation for both living and deceased donors.

The research team identified potential deceased donors based on specific criteria such as a ventilated inpatient death of a patient 75 years or younger, without multi-organ system failure, sepsis, or cancer, and whose cause of death was consistent with organ donation — which includes neurologic determination of death (DNDD) or circulatory determination of death (DCDD).

Based on the results, researchers suggest two new metrics, which should be standardized, for measuring OPO performance: evaluating donation percentage — the percentage of possible deceased - donors who become actual donors — and tracking organs transplanted per possible donor.

The researchers note that these data alone do not capture all potential deceased organ donors in the U.S., as the current definition of an eligible death excludes potential donors over age 70, and those classified as a «donation after cardiac death» donor, both of which broaden the pool of available donors.

The NPRM's proposed approach did not differentiate between situations in which the donor was competent to consent to the donation — for example, when an individual is donating blood, sperm, a kidney, or a liver or lung lobe — and situations in which the donor was deceased, for example, when cadaveric organs and tissues were being donated.