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Articles tagged "Procurement"

  • 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…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Organ Decline Rate and Outcomes of Shared Kidneys from OneLegacy OPO Donation Service Area in Los Angeles

    M. Hussain1, P. Homkalrias1, K. Wheeler2, G. Danovitch1, S. Bunnapradist1

    1UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Background: 20% recovered kidneys are discarded in the US. Southern California has a high number of End-Stage Kidney Disease patients and the waitlist time…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Center Cost is Not a Barrier to Aggressive Utilization of DCD Livers

    L. M. Brewer, D. M. Faulkner, A. J. Logan, J. M. Sneddon, G. N. Brock, N. Singh, W. K. Washburn, A. D. Schenk

    The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

    *Purpose: Only 7% of livers transplanted in 2018 were from deceased from cardiac death (DCD) donors and only a minority of transplant centers aggressively utilize…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Has the Proportional Rise in Deceased Organ Donation Rate Over Last 5 Years Been Optimal? A Data-based, Forecasting Model Analysis of UNOS/NHSBT UK Donor Data

    H. Sharma1, A. Sharma2

    1Transplant and Vascular Access Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2Data Analytics, Loyola University, Chicago, IL

    *Purpose: The increase in deceased donor numbers since last decade has been widely reported. We aim to analyse if the trend in rise of numbers…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Living Donor Collective Pilot Evaluations of Living Kidney Donor Candidates at 10 Programs

    B. Kasiske, M. Conboy, Y. Ahn, A. Israni, J. Snyder

    SRTR, Minneapolis, MN

    *Purpose: Much remains to learn regarding long-term effects of living organ donation on donors. Rare events are important, and long-term follow-up with appropriate contemporaneous controls…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Using Trajectory Analysis to Characterize Trends in OPO Performance with Population-Based Metrics

    K. Ross1, D. Goldberg2, R. Lynch1

    1Emory University, Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA, 2University of Miami, Miami, FL

    *Purpose: Identifying the organ procurement organizations (OPOs) with the greatest opportunity to improve donation rates may help increase the number of transplants in the United…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    An Evaluation of Deceased Donor Eligibility and US Organ Donation Rates

    L. DeRoos1, Y. Zhou2, W. Marrero1, M. Lavieri1, D. Hutton3, N. Parikh4

    1Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 3School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 4Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

    *Purpose: Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) performance assessment is essential for identifying best practices and improvement opportunities. We aimed to evaluate OPO performance using the following…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Racial/Ethnic Differences in Deceased Organ Donor Rates Over Time in the United States

    A. Kernodle, W. Zhang, B. Doby, L. Liyanage, A. Massie, T. Purnell, D. Segev

    Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Historically, deceased organ donation rates have varied across racial/ethnic groups within the US. To address these differences, the transplant community has investigated select minority…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Process Matters: Factors in Refusing Solid Organ Donation by African Americans

    L. A. Siminoff1, G. P. Alolod1, H. M. Gardiner1, R. D. Hasz2, P. A. Mulvania2, M. Wilson-Genderson1

    1Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA

    *Purpose: With approximately 25 African Americans (AAs) dying weekly while awaiting a transplantable organ, this study compares the experiences of AA families who authorized donation…
  • 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’…
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