Organ and tissue donation: use of quality tool for process optimization

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...

Analysis of Solutions for Developing Resources of Organ Donation; A Donation Card Approach

Nowadays, organ transplant is an inevitable necessity for patients in need who other medical treatments don’t work for them. Nevertheless, it has become one of the major challenges of societies to find transplantable organs in order to bring patients in need back to society and their families. The statistics points out that in the year 2017, despite the issuance of the four million organ donati...

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 ...

Consent for organ donation.

Improving the consent rate for solid organ donation from deceased donors is a key component of strategies in the UK and other countries to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. In the UK, the law is currently clear on what forms consent may take, with the views of the individual expressed previously in life taking priority. Such views may have been expressed prospectively, vi...