{"title":"Estimating the non-heart-beating donor potential at a trauma center.","authors":"K A Evers, D D Lewis","doi":"10.7182/prtr.1.9.3.fk25r1452l1460g2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The number of people awaiting a life-saving transplant far outweighs the number of organs available for transplantation. Our organ procurement organization sought to identify the non-heart-beating donor potential at a large urban level 1 trauma center. We modified the death-record reviews for a 2-year period and determined that a total of 23 patients who expired were suitable for non-heart-beating donation. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that if all large urban level 1 trauma centers participated in non-heart-beating donation, more organs would be available for transplantation.</p>","PeriodicalId":79507,"journal":{"name":"Journal of transplant coordination : official publication of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO)","volume":"9 3","pages":"186-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of transplant coordination : official publication of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7182/prtr.1.9.3.fk25r1452l1460g2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The number of people awaiting a life-saving transplant far outweighs the number of organs available for transplantation. Our organ procurement organization sought to identify the non-heart-beating donor potential at a large urban level 1 trauma center. We modified the death-record reviews for a 2-year period and determined that a total of 23 patients who expired were suitable for non-heart-beating donation. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that if all large urban level 1 trauma centers participated in non-heart-beating donation, more organs would be available for transplantation.