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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Automated Electronic Donor Referrals Have Increased Transplantation

    J. Piano

    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

    A. Wey1, J. Miller1, Y. Ahn1, D. Musgrove1, A. Hart1, N. Salkowski1, M. Skeans1, R. Hirose2, A. Israni1, J. Snyder1, B. Kasiske1

    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

    D. Chyou1, K. Ross-Driscoll2, R. Lynch2, D. S. Goldberg1

    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)…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Wave of the Future: Expanding Role and Necessity of the Dedicated Procurement Surgeon

    C. Strom, B. Cimsit, H. Nelson, F. Delmonico

    New England Donor Services, Waltham, MA

    *Purpose: To evaluate the quantitative and qualitative benefits of a dedicated procurement surgeon (DPS) across the transplant spectrum, including the DPS technical performance value for…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    New and Unknown: VCA Acceptability to the General Public

    L. A. Siminoff, D. B. Sarwer, G. P. Alolod, E. Davis, H. McGregor, H. M. Gardiner

    Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: Despite the promise of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as a viable alternative to available reconstructive procedures or prosthetics, its future relies heavily on families’…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Survey on Solid Organ Pancreas Transplantation in the United States: Plenty of Insulin, Short on Procedures!

    R. F. Parsons1, T. Alhamad2, K. L. Lentine3, A. Basu1, K. J. Woodside4, G. Romeo5, C. Klein6, M. Pavlakis7, J. Friedewald8, D. Dadhania9, M. Cooper10

    1Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA, 2Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO, 3St. Louis Univ, St. Louis, MO, 4Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 5Harvard, Boston, MA, 6Piedmont, Atlanta, GA, 7BIDMC, Boston, MA, 8Northwestern, Chicago, IL, 9Weill Cornell Medical College – NYP, New York, NY, 10Georgetown Univ, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: For 15 years pancreas transplantation (PT) numbers have paradoxically declined. We sought to understand the drop in all types of PT and to find…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Influence of Nonclinical Factors on Adult Liver Organ Donor Offer Decision Making in the United States

    S. Meade, M. Simpson, B. J. Kane, C. J. Simon, Y. Cheah, R. L. Jenkins, M. E. Akoad

    Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA

    *Purpose: Liver donor graft discard rate remained at approximately 10% in the United States despite the critical organ shortage. We sought to understand practice patterns…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    A Follow-Up Over Time to the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT

    C. C. Muse, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski

    LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: A previous review from one U.S. organ procurement organization (OPO) concluded positive HCV test results yielded high rates of authorized/not recovered donors (ANR), low…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Maximizing the Gift: One OPO’s Experience Maximizing the Gift of Organ Donation by Successfully Increasing the Number of Organs Transplanted from Non-Braindead Donors

    J. B. Nave, A. J. Boyer, C. A. Hostetler, C. C. Muse, R. A. Squires, J. P. Orlowski

    LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: In 2018 in the United States, donation after circulatory death (DCD) cases accounted for 20% of deceased organ donor recoveries1. Our organ procurement organization's…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Mobile Application for Communication Increases the Efficiency of Organ Procurement and Transplantation

    E. Pahl

    Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Donor organ recovery is a complex process involving organ procurement organizations and multiple surgical teams from various transplant centers. According to the Organ Preservation…
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