Sentences with phrase «of deceased organ»

Canada - DONATE study protocol: a prospective national observational study of the medical management of deceased organ donors

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

In this study, researchers utilized national data on inpatient deaths in the United States to estimate the potential supply of deceased organ donors, and used these data, in combination with State Inpatient Databases (SIDs) to develop new metrics of OPO performance that better reflect the true deceased donor supply in each geographic area.

Not exact matches

Some states have, in addition, passed laws requiring medical personnel to ask the family of the deceased to donate his or her organs.

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 British Medical Association advocated for a «soft» system of «presumed consent» and under the proposed legislation, deceased individuals will be presumed to have consented to donating their organs on their death, unless they have expressed an objection during their lifetime.

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.

By passively cooling deceased organ donor body temperature by approximately two degrees from normal body temperature, researchers saw an overall nearly 40 percent increase in the successful function of donated kidneys after surgery.

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).

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.

«This is critical because the number of available deceased organ donors has been stagnant, but the demand has dramatically increased.

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.

Slight changes to the system for allocating deceased - donor kidneys could result in higher rates of organ procurement and lead to more kidney transplants across the country, according to new research co-authored by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor.

Wondering what was behind those reports, McAninch and colleagues at Rush previously obtained and analyzed brain tissue from the University of Miami Brain Bank from deceased Caucasian male organ donors who at their time of death were young and healthy, without known thyroid problems, to see if they could find any clues.

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.

(That has been a challenge for efforts to treat type 1 diabetes with received transplants of β cells from deceased organ donors.)

Domino liver transplant procedures are aptly named for the sequential, one - after - the - other nature of the process in which a viable liver from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient, and the first recipientâ $ ™ s organ is then transplanted into a second recipient.

A transplanted organ from a deceased donor typically needs weeks to «heal» and reduce the risk of rejection.

The first few weeks after the transplant are critical, especially when the organ donor is deceased, said Jordan Pober, the Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine and professor of immunobiology, pathology, and dermatology at Yale.

The risk of rejection is even higher when the donor is deceased, due to organ damage.

Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too long without blood or oxygen.

In the case of the eight patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds from the hormone harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.

Whether the removal and / or retention and / or disposal of tissue, whole organs or parts of organs from the bodies of deceased persons following hospital or coronial post-mortem confers any cause of action upon the Claimants and which do not form part of the Royal Liverpool Children's Litigation.

Whether the retention by the Defendant and / or their predecessors in title of tissue, parts of organs from the bodies of stillborn or deceased children after post-mortem confers any cause of action for psychiatric trauma suffered by the parents of those children caused by the discovery of that retention

Furthermore, paired kidney transplants using organs from deceased or live donors, makes compelling sense from a cost perspective, compared to the alternative of the pain and discomfort of kidney dialysis treatment.