Chaplains on transplant teams facilitate permission being given for organ donation

Transplant Candidate Education about Living Organ Donation

Among the many disincentives to living organ donation, patient reluctance to talk about it may be among the easiest to eliminate. When transplant centers educate patients about living donation at the right time, in the right place and with the right people, patients feel more knowledgeable and talk about it. That in turn leads to more interactions with others about living donation, and more liv...

Worldwide cadaveric organ donation systems (transplant organ procurement).

Autoresuscitation after asystole in patients being considered for organ donation.

OBJECTIVES A fundamental issue in organ donation after circulatory death is the determination of death. There are limited data regarding the incidence and timing of autoresuscitation after asystole. Prevailing guidelines suggest a 2- to 5-min observation after mechanical asystole before the declaration of death. This study tested the hypothesis that a 2-min observation period after asystole is ...

Strategies to facilitate organ donation among African Americans.

The greatest challenge for transplantation is the significant disparity in the number of organs available relative to the demand. African Americans in particular are disproportionately represented on the national transplantwaiting list for amyriad of reasons. Although accounting for merely 13% of the national population (1), African Americans comprise 30% of the 123,000 waitlist candidates (2)....

The role of professional chaplains on pediatric palliative care teams: perspectives from physicians and chaplains.

CONTEXT Pediatric palliative care (PPC) specialists recognize spiritual care as integral to the services offered to seriously ill children and their families. Little is known about how PPC programs deliver spiritual care. OBJECTIVE The goal of this pilot study was to begin to describe the role of professional chaplains in established PPC programs in children's hospitals in the United States. ...