Potential availability of cadaver organs for transplantation.

Abstract

Objective-To determine the potential number of cadaver kidney donors by applying defined donor criteria to people dying in hospital.

Elective non-therapeutic intensive care and the four principles of medical ethics

“…This strategy first appears in the late 1980s and has been developed progressively in several countries because of the worldwide organ shortage 1. Since its beginning it has raised a number of ethical issues which are still debated today 2 3…”

Development of a Central Matching System for the Allocation of Cadaveric Kidneys

“…19,22 The simulation provides information about the number of transplantations performed each year, the HLA-match distribution of the patients receiving transplants, the time from patients' registration until transplantation, and the number of patients in the pool still waiting (and for how long) for transplantation for each of the ten years, and for each of the five algorithms used in the simulation model. Table 2 describes, for each year of the simulation, the number of patients arriving, the number of transplantations performed, and the number of patients still waiting for transplants at the end of the year.…”

Lost potential of kidney and liver donors amongst deceased intracerebral hemorrhage patients

“…Most organ donations are from patients with brain catastrophes including subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), traumatic brain injury and spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), causing over 80% of brain deaths [1]. A trend towards donation after cardiac death has been predicted if brain dead donations decrease in the future due to better prevention, a decrease in motor vehicle accidents and decreased mortality of cerebral bleedings [2].…”