Cardiac Donor Selection and Management

Lung donor selection and management.

Lung transplantation is still limited by the shortage of suitable donor organs. This results in long waiting times for listed patients with a substantial risk (10-15%) of dying before transplantation. All efforts to increase donor awareness through legislation, public campaigns, and training of transplant coordinators and medical ICU staff should be encouraged. Only a minority of cadaveric dono...

Donor Selection and Management of the High-Risk Donor

In light of increasing organ demand in a stable supply setting, prompt and efficacious potential cardiac donor management is of paramount importance. Since the early description of the “ideal” donor by Griepp and associates in 1971 (1), the criteria by which donors are accepted— and the characteristics that determine a “high-risk” donor—have changed substantially (see Tables 1 and 2). Indeed, t...

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Selection of Donor and Recipients

Skin Graft Harvesting and Donor Site Selection

Acute and chronic wounds are characterized by breakdown of the integrity of the soft tissue envelope surrounding any portion of the body. Flaps and grafts are the two main surgical procedures utilized to repair soft tissue loss. A simple skin graft applied as a thin layer harvested with a dermatome, a scalpel or a special knife may provide a durable coverage. A free skin graft is a piece of ski...