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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.
Michael W. Rosson +2 more
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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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Cadaver organ procurement in Kuwait
Transplantation Proceedings, 1999KUWAIT has a population of two million people. Between 200 and 250 new cases of renal failure are reported every year. About 100 of these are suitable for renal transplantation, but only around 40 have suitably related donors. Local brain-dead cadavers are potentially a good source of organs, particularly with the high incidence of deaths due to car ...
M.A Razzak +4 more
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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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Advancing the Case for Organ Procurement
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2009James Delaney and David Hershenov (2009) make a compelling case for the conclusion that it is morally permissible to procure organs from the deceased without prior consent; although they prudently ...
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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
James W. Begun +2 more
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The Law and Economics of Organ Procurement*
Law & Policy, 1990This paper presents an economic analysis of the organ procurement system in the U.S. and examines proposals to alleviate the shortage of transplantable organs. The paper's principal conclusions are: (1) Although non‐market solutions deserve the highest priority, demand increases fueled by improvements in transplant technology will probably make some ...
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Inefficiency in Cadaveric Organ Procurement
Southern Economic Journal, 2006The shortage of cadaveric human organs made available for transplantation has reached critical proportions and is now causing over 6000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Economically, this shortage appears to stem from at least two principal underlying causes, both of which are attributable to the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act: (i) a ...
Richard P. Saba +2 more
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Regional procurement team for abdominal organs
Transplantation Proceedings, 2004The graft shortages make multiorgan procurements mandatory. We describe the results of a regional procurement team policy that has been employed over a 5-year period.Three hundred forty-three multiorgan procurements were performed by a regional team using an en bloc harvesting method.Among 1374 grafts procured, none was discarded because of iatrogenic ...
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