Sentences with phrase «potential organ donors»

In - hospital experiences of families of potential organ donors: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis.

[12] Keep, Phillip, 2000, UK physicians urge potential organ donors to be anaesthetised even after certified brain dead, Transplant News, October 2000.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

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Checking the organ donor box on your driver's license isn't enough, Florian said — your license may not end up at the hospital with you in an emergency, and your family has the potential to override the designation.

Arthur R. Lillicrop III, of the pastoral counseling center at the Washington Hospital Center (which hosted the conference), told participants that the gap between the number of organ donors and the number of potential recipients is ripe for redress by Christians.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identidonor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identiDonor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

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).

To test the potential benefit and safety of targeted hypothermia in donors on delayed organ function rates in the recipients of their kidneys, Niemann and his research team conducted a randomized controlled trial in two large organ donation service areas from March 2012 to October 2013.

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.

The results had been awaited eagerly, because pigs» physiological resemblance to humans makes them a potential source of donor organs.

And in another Penn project, researchers are studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased diabetic donors, rather than remaining on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.

The researchers conclude that the best way to boost organ donation rates is a multi-pronged approach that includes education and engagement with potential donors and their families, broader community engagement, concerted efforts by hospitals caring for potential donors, and optimized performance of organ procurement organizations who manage organ donation in this country.

The researchers examined data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to 2013.

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 proposal to change the allocation system would broaden sharing of donated livers to a 150 - nautical mile radius around the donor hospital, regardless of which organ region a potential recipient lives in.

In transplantation, improved usage of borderline donor organs and of understanding for the causes and potential treatment of ischaemic reperfusion phenomena.

The shortage of human organ donors has led scientists to investigate animals as a potential source for transplantable organs or tissues.

They asserted that the information exchanged and collected to request consent, evaluate medical information about a potential donor and perform organ recoveries relates to treatment and are not administrative activities.