Process of Organ Donation and Tissue in Hospital Units

Nurses’ performance regarding organ donation process in critical care units in Qazvin in winter 2018: A analytical descriptive study

Aim: Considering that the correct diagnosis and management of patients with brain death in intensive care units is the basis of the transplant system and considering the importance of nursing care in the organ transplant process, this study aimed to investigate the nurses’ performance of critical wards with organ donation. Materials & Methods: This is a cross-sectional study performed in Educa...

Improving the process of deceased organ and tissue donation: a role for donation physicians as specialists.

Organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

People requiring organ transplants are usually very ill or dying because their own organ is failing. They range from young babies and children through to older people. Some need transplants because they are born with a physical problem or a disease that causes organ failure. Others may have contracted a disease or acquired an injury. Organ transplants can save lives. People needing tissue trans...

Organ donation from intensive care units in England.

OBJECTIVE To audit all deaths in intensive care units (excepting coronary care only and neonatal intensive care units) in England to assess potential for organ procurement. DESIGN An audit in which 14 regional health authorities and London special health authorities each designated a regional liaison officer to identify intensive care units and liaise with Department of Health and the Medical...

Elective ventilation as an improvement measure in organ and tissue donation process

Introduction Elective Ventilation (EV) is a concept that consists on the agreement reached between patient relatives and transplant coordinator of intubate, connect to mechanical ventilation and admit in intensive care unit those people who are in a coma secondary to a catastrophic cerebral vascular accident (CVA), with the only purpose of becoming organ donors after brain death state has been ...