Pediatric donor management to optimize donor heart utilization

Donor and recipient management to optimize embryo technology success

For an embryo transfer program to be effective, numerous factors need to be put in place to ensure success. Nutrition, estrous cycle control, donor and recipient management are all factors responsible for the success or failure in fertility for a given herd. Utilization of body condition score is a practical method to determine nutritional status of both recipients and donors. Prepartum nutriti...

Organ donor management in Canada: recommendations of the forum on Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential.

Council for Donation and Transplantation (CCDT) sponsored a forum entitled " Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential, " 23–25 Feb. 2004, to develop guidelines and recommendations for organ donor management in Canada. Discussions were restricted to the interval of care that begins with neurological determination of death (NDD), commonly called " brain death, " and consent to organ d...

Donor Predictors of Allograft Utilization and Recipient Outcomes after Heart Transplantation Khush et al: Donor Influences in Heart Transplantation

Donor corneal tissue management

1337 although the scientific evidence is inconclusive. Problems associated with prophylactic antibiotics include selection of more resistant organisms, the development of resistant bacteria, allergic reactions, and expense. Most surgeons who give preoperative antibiotics use a broad-spectrum, relatively nonsensitizing drug for 1–3 days before surgery. The most common source of endophthalmitis i...

Donor Heart Utilization following Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation: Influence of Donor Characteristics and Wait Times in Transplant Regions

Background. Procurement of hearts from cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitated (CPR) donors for transplantation is suboptimal. We studied the influences of donor factors and regional wait times on CPR donor heart utilization. Methods. From UNOS database (1998 to 2012), we identified 44,744 heart donors, of which 4,964 (11%) received CPR. Based on procurement of heart for transplantation, CPR do...