Organ Donation: How to Increase the Donor Pool

Aiden McDowell ORGAN DONATION WORLDWIDE: SOLUTIONS TO INCREASE ORGAN DONATION RATES by

Expanding the donor pool to increase renal transplantation.

INTRODUCTION The goal of the Eurotransplant renal allocation scheme is to provide every patient on the waiting list with a reasonably balanced opportunity for a donor offer. New initiatives were taken in order to maximize donor usage while maintaining a successful transplant outcome. METHODS Two Eurotransplant projects were launched in order to accommodate changes in donor and recipient profi...

Donor sepsis is not a contraindication to cadaveric organ donation.

Systemic donor infection is regarded as being an absolute contraindication to cadaveric organ donation for transplantation. This is largely due to fear of transmitting pathogenic organisms to the immunosuppressed recipient. However, due to the current shortage of organs available for transplantation, clinicians are faced with the option of using organs from 'non-ideal' donors, such as those pat...

Donation benefit to organ donor families: a current debate.

Before beginning this activity, please read the instructions for CME on p. 241. This page also provides important information on the method of physician participation, estimated time to complete the educational activity, medium used for instruction, and dates of release and expiration. The quiz, evaluation form, and certification appear on pp. 241–243. Donation benefit to organ donor families: ...

Click to "like" organ donation: the use of online media to promote organ donor registration.

CONTEXT Efforts to promote organ donation have traditionally relied on mass-mediated or interpersonal communication to promote donor registration. Despite its popularity, the use of online media has yet to be carefully evaluated as a platform to promote organ donation. OBJECTIVE To describe results of an intervention to promote donor registration that relies solely on online media to communic...