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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

    Report of Organ Offers Linked with Instant Messaging Data Provides a Basis for Quality Improvement

    E. Pahl

    Health Informatics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    *Purpose: Thousands of viable organs are discarded every year with incorrect or inappropriate reasons for declination. One limitation on the accessibility of organ transplantation is…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact of Transportation Innovation for Human Organs: Surgical Perspectives and Implications

    T. Talaie, S. Niederhaus, E. Villalonga, J. Bromberg, J. Scalea

    Transplant Surgery, Unviersity of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

    *Purpose: Recent changes in allocation and the ongoing organ donor shortage have led to increased regional and national sharing, putting intense pressure on the organ…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Proposed Metrics for Recertification of Organ Procurement Organizations: Evaluation by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients

    J. Snyder1, D. Musgrove1, D. Zaun1, A. Wey1, N. Salkowski1, J. Rosendale2, A. Israni1, R. Hirose3, B. Kasiske1

    1SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, 2UNOS, Richmond, VA, 3Department of Surgery, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

    *Purpose: On December 23, 2019, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed two new standards that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) must meet for…
  • 2020 American Transplant Congress

    Multi-Organ Procurement Organization Review of the Impact of Reactive Anti-HCV and HCV NAT Results

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

    LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

    *Purpose: Previously a single organ procurement organization (OPO) reviewed data from a 15 month cohort (1/1/2016 to 3/31/17) and concluded that donors who tested positive…
  • 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…
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