2022 American Transplant Congress
Management of Brain-Dead Organ Donors by a Dedicated ICU Team Improves Organ Yield
*Purpose: Management of brain-dead (BD) donors can be challenging in hospitals with limited ICU bed availability, lack of accessible diagnostic capabilities, and a culture that…2022 American Transplant Congress
Donor Hospital Referrals of Potential Deceased Donors Slow Down on Weekends
LiveOnNY, Long Island City, NY
*Purpose: As a condition of participation, CMS requires the referral to an organ procurement organization (OPO) of patients with death or imminent death by every…2022 American Transplant Congress
Organ Donation at a Centralized Donation Facility Compared to Donation at Referral Hospitals
*Purpose: An emerging model of donor management includes utilization of a Specialized Donor Care Facility (SDCF) - essentially a stand-alone OPO-based procurement facility in which…2022 American Transplant Congress
Direct Procurement of Heart and Lungs from a Controlled DCD Donor with Ongoing Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion (aNRP) – A Synchronized Retrieval
*Purpose: With the increased number of aNRP in controlled DCD donors comes a high demand for techniques to directly procure cardiothoracic organs during the aNRP.…2022 American Transplant Congress
Streamlining Donation Transplantation Communication Via HIPAA-compliant App
Transplant Connect, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Communication across the donation transplantation ecosystem is fractured and ineffectual, often necessitating the use of unsecured methods such as texting in order to accomplish…2022 American Transplant Congress
Superoxide in Cardiac Allografts from Donors After Circulatory Death
*Purpose: Quality of cardiac allografts from donors after circulatory death (DCD) is adversely impacted by warm ischemia and subsequent reperfusion during organ resuscitation. Post-transplant myocardial…2021 American Transplant Congress
Donor Factors Associated with In-field Decline of Heart Allografts
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: The decline of organs upon assessment within the field complicates optimal organ and resource utilization. We aimed to investigate if certain donor factors were…2021 American Transplant Congress
Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Transplantation
Transplant Connect, Santa Monica, CA
*Purpose: It is well understood and supported by previous studies that costly inefficiencies exist in the current phone-based process by which hospitals refer potential donors…2021 American Transplant Congress
The Effect of Covid-19 on Offer Acceptance Rates by Age and Race Groups
1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2Univ of San Fransico, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: COVID-19 causes more severe complications in older patients and disproportionately leads to poor outcomes in racial minorities. High offer acceptance rates indicate better access…2021 American Transplant Congress
Geospatial Analysis of Organ Procurement Organizations and Its Impact on Organ Donation Rates
1University of Miami, Miami, FL, 2Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: For the majority of organ procurement organizations (OPOs), OPO staff travel to donor hospitals to obtain consent and manage donors, while OPO headquarters (HQ)…
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