(Non‐)donor demographics, donation willingness, and the donor career

Family perception of the process of organ donation. Qualitative psychosocial analysis of the subjective interpretation of donor and nondonor families.

Family perception of organ donation has been explored by numerous authors using statements by the people who decided whether or not to donate the organs of a relative in a situation of brain death. Within this tradition, in this work, we analyze the discourse of six families who granted permission for organ donation and three who refused. We describe the process-based interpretation of this exp...

Perceived support among families deciding about organ donation for their loved ones: donor vs nondonor next of kin.

BACKGROUND Families' experiences in the hospital influence their decisions about donating organs of brain-dead relatives. Meeting families' support needs during this traumatic time is an obligation and a challenge for critical care staff. OBJECTIVES (1) To elicit family members' accounts of various types of support received and perceived quality of care for themselves and their loved ones whe...

The Ethics of Donation and Donor Protection

One donor, two transplants: willingness to participate in altruistically unbalanced exchange donation.

Kidney exchange donation programs offer a good solution to help patients with a willing, but incompatible living kidney donor. Literature shows that blood type O patients are less likely to be selected for transplantation within a living exchange donation program. 'Altruistically unbalanced donation' could help these blood type O patients: one donor-recipient pair is incompatible (e.g. A-donor ...

Donor Hemovigilance with Blood Donation.

BACKGROUND Reports on unexpected events (UEs) during blood donation (BD) inadequately consider the role of technical UEs. METHODS Defined local and systemic UEs were graded by severity; technical UEs were not graded. On January 1, 2008, E.B.P.S.-Logistics (EBPS) installed the UE module for plasma management software (PMS). Donor room physicians entered UEs daily into PMS. Medical directors re...