Improving Organ Procurement Practices in Michigan

Improving organ procurement practices in Michigan.

Travel to procure deceased donor organs is associated with risk to transplant personnel. In many instances, multiple teams are present for a given operation. We studied our statewide experience to determine how much excess travel this redundancy entails, and generated alternate models for organ recovery. We reviewed our organ procurement organization's experience with deceased donor operations ...

Improving organ procurement travel practices in the United States: proceedings from the Michigan Donor Travel Forum.

There are significant risks and inefficiencies associated with organ procurement travel. In an effort to identify, quantify, and define opportunities to mitigate these risks and inefficiencies, 25 experts from the transplantation, transportation and insurance fields were convened. The forum concluded that: on procurement travel practices are inadequate, there is wide variation in the quality of...

5 years after tragedy: an update on organ procurement travel in Michigan.

In 2007, six members of a lung procurement team from the University ofMichiganwere killed in a plane crash over Lake Michigan. In response, The Michigan Donor Travel Forum assembled to develop strategies for improving the safety of procurement travel in the United States. Several issues were identified as targets for future quality improvement, including concerns of safety culture, communicatio...

Multiple Organ Procurement

Organ Procurement and Transplantation in Belgium.

SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN BELGIUM: HISTORYAND MILESTONES Belgium, a federal country of 11 million inhabitants (as of 2016), has been very active in the field of transplantation. Clinical transplantation activities were initiated in the early 1960s with the first, living and deceased, kidney transplantations. During these pioneering years, Belgium was recognized for carrying out the first d...