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The Give and Take of Organ Procurement
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1994Scientific developments of the last 20 years have made the transplantation of cadaveric solid organs a viable and expected treatment alternative for patients suffering from various forms of End Stage Organ Disease. Of the number of organs that could be utilized for this, only a small percentage of them are actually made available.
D K, Martin, E, Meslin
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Hospital development and the performance of organ procurement organizations
Journal of Transplant Coordination, 1998With more than 56,000 patients on the national waiting list for organ transplants and relatively little growth in the number of donors, organ procurement organizations now recognize the need to aggressively market their services and the range of donor procurement opportunities to hospital personnel. This study examines the types and levels of hospital
M M, McKinney, J W, Begun, Y A, Ozcan
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Donor Management and Organ Procurement
2022Description of current techniques for donor management and organ procurement in heart ...
Bernabei Annalisa +3 more
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Cost Structures of US Organ Procurement Organizations
Transplantation, 2021Background. The goal is to provide a national analysis of organ procurement organization (OPO) costs. Methods. Five years of data, for 51 of the 58 OPOs (2013–2017, a near census) were obtained under a FOIA. OPOs are not-for-profit federal contractors with a geographic monopoly.
Philip J, Held +6 more
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[Organizing and coordinating organ procurement].
Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere, 2023The task of organizing and coordinating organ and tissue donation projects for deceased patients in a state of encephalic death is a recent one. Now established, it is proving to be a decisive factor in the quality of the donation process and organ and tissue retrieval.
Karine, Baudoin +2 more
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Organ Procurement and the Donor Family
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2000The need for transplantable cadaveric organs for outweighs the supply. Improvements in the relatively new field of transplantation have dramatically improved success rates. Legislation at the state and federal levels has removed many legal roadblocks to donation.
L M, Bogan, M W, Rosson, F F, Petersen
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JAMA, 1993
... One is struck by the high level of organ procurement charges in spite of the characterization of organ procurement as altruistic. Although the median organ procurement charges in 1988, documented by Evans, ranged from nearly $16,000 to nearly $21,000 (1991 dollars), there was not a penny for the accident victim's/organ donor's family.
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... One is struck by the high level of organ procurement charges in spite of the characterization of organ procurement as altruistic. Although the median organ procurement charges in 1988, documented by Evans, ranged from nearly $16,000 to nearly $21,000 (1991 dollars), there was not a penny for the accident victim's/organ donor's family.
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Taylor on posthumous organ procurement
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013In defending what he calls ‘full-blooded Epicureanism’, James Stacey Taylor argues that the dead cannot be harmed or wronged.1 This has implications for a range of bioethical issues pertaining to death, including posthumous organ procurement. Taylor claims that respecting the autonomy of persons requires that their desires regarding the treatment of ...
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Schweizerische Rundschau fur Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de medecine Praxis, 1992
Organ transplantation is increasing by becoming an important part of medicine and surgery. Its development is mainly restricted by a lack of organ donation. The authors describe the methods of donor treatment and organ procurement. Medical and paramedical professionals should be aware of the actual achievements in organ transplantation.
J, Lerut, E, Dijkhuis
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Organ transplantation is increasing by becoming an important part of medicine and surgery. Its development is mainly restricted by a lack of organ donation. The authors describe the methods of donor treatment and organ procurement. Medical and paramedical professionals should be aware of the actual achievements in organ transplantation.
J, Lerut, E, Dijkhuis
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Technical Complications in Organ Procurement
Transplantation Proceedings, 2007It is of crucial importance that harvested organs are not discarded because of lesions inflicted during the procurement operation. From January 2005 to January 2006, a total of 395 organs were procured: 266 kidneys, 102 livers, and 27 pancreas. Two kidneys were lost due to vascular lesions, and 1 liver could not be transplanted because of a severe ...
E Domínguez, Fernández +3 more
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