Organ donation procedures have become more frequent in the US as need for transplants is increasing. Defining anesthesiologist's role organ donations after brain and cardiac death important, understanding its ethics practical physiologic perioperative implications. Despite this, there are few papers specifically addressing anesthetic management of donors. This review summarizes preoperative, in...

OBJECTIVE to identify experiences and feelings on the organ donation process, from the perspective of a relative of an organ donor in a transplant unit. METHOD this was exploratory research using a qualitative approach, performed with seven family members of different organ donors, selected by a lottery. Sociodemographic data and the experiences regarding the donation process were collected t...

As increasing demand for organs is a challenge for transplant services worldwide it is essential to audit the process of organ donation. To address this, a national audit of potential organ donors was undertaken across hospitals with Intensive Care Units (N = 36). Questionnaires were returned on all patients (n = 2073) who died in these units from 1/9/07-31/8/08; 200 (10%) of these patients wer...

Regardless of the level of development, religion and beliefs have crucial impact on people's attitude towards organ donation. Although organ donation in Islam is obviously appraised, mainly due to lack of an appropriate infrastructure, post-mortem donation rate in Islamic countries is not comparable to successful settings. We conducted this study to assess the extent of contribution of factors ...