Articles tagged "Procurement"

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…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Exploring Perceptions of Organ Procurement: Need for a Formal Medical Student Curriculum
L. Winer¹, M. Vivero², B. Scully³, A. Cortez¹, A. Kassam¹, J. Kuethe¹, R. Nowygrod³, J. Emond³, R. C. Quillin III¹
¹Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ²Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ³Surgery, Columbia University, New York City, NY
*Purpose: Medical student participation in organ procurement provides early exposure to surgery and may inspire donor advocacy. We evaluated medical students’ experiences with an organ…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Apparatus and Method to Facilitate In-Situ Cold Perfusion of Abdominal Organs in DCD Donors
M. Jendrisak
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Itasca, IL
*Purpose: Rapid, effective in-situ cold perfusion of the abdominal organs in the setting of donation after circulatory death (DCD) is a critical surgical task to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Costs of Kidney Recoveries Varies Dramatically across Organ Procurement Organizations
J. P. Roberts¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², P. J. Held³
¹Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ³Stanford, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Report on the wide variation across OPOs in the cost of kidney recovery from deceased donors.*Methods: Cost reports (CMS 216-94 Form) from 52 Independent…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Wide Geographic Variability in the Proportion of Donors with Cardiac Death – Lost Opportunities for Organ Donation?
E. M. Sonnenberg¹, D. S. Goldberg², J. Y. Hsu³, P. P. Reese², P. L. Abt¹
¹Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are largely not considered by organ procurement organization (OPO) metrics, as DCD donors are only counted in donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Associations between State-Level Donor Designation Rate and Organ Procurement Organization Characteristics and Outcomes
J. Bragg-Gresham¹, P. Held², J. P. Roberts³
¹Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: The impact of “Donor Designation (DDSR)”, a pledge to donate with state drivers licensing authority, has not been explored. This work focusses on estimating…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Incidence of Autoresuscitation in Donation after Cardiac Death Donors
C. W. Koo¹, R. A. Helmick¹, K. Van Frank², K. Gilley², J. D. Eason¹
¹UTHSC / Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Memphis, TN, ²Mid South Transplant Foundation, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are subject to an observation period after asystole to monitor for cardiopulmonary autoresuscitation (AR). Periods vary between and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Differences in the Cost of Kidney Organ Recovery by Organ Procurement Organization Size
P. J. Held¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², J. P. Roberts³
¹Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Univ of Michigan, Michigan, MI, ³Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Economic theory suggests that there should be an initial decrease in costs of products as production levels increase. Using data from independent OPOs we…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Intra-abdominal Hypertension And Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: An Organ Procurement Organization’S Experience
J. Stefek¹, L. E. Markham¹, M. Ott¹, S. S. Johnson², J. C. Olson³, H. Sangha⁴, D. G. Vasquez⁵, S. P. Whitt⁶, H. E. Wilkins¹, P. A. Webster¹, M. Iliakova⁷, M. Moncure⁷
¹Midwest Transplant Network, Westwood, KS, ²Via Christi St Francis, Wichita, KS, ³University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, ⁴Lake Regional Health System, Osage Beach, MO, ⁵Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS, ⁶University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, MO, ⁷University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
*Purpose: Because of a shortage of available organs, an average of 22 people die each day waiting for a transplant. There has been significant research…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Differences in the Cost of Recovering Organs over Time
J. P. Roberts¹, J. Bragg-Gresham², P. Held³
¹Univ of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, CA, ³Stanford University, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: To report on the level and changes over time in the OPOs’ cost of recovering deceased donor organs (kidneys; livers; hearts; and lungs).*Methods: Cost…

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