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Cultural analysis of an organ procurement organization

Progress in Transplantation, 2001
Organ procurement organizations are a critical link in the acquisition, placement, and transport of human organs for transplantation. Employed within the organ procurement organizations are organ transplant coordinators and support staff who constitute the front line in the challenge to diminish the gap between the supply and demand for organs ...
Martin A. Strosberg, Ronald W. Gimbel, S Lehrman   +2 more
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Organ procurement: Spanish transplant procurement management

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2011
Transplantation is an accepted therapeutic option to save or improve the quality of life when organ failure occurs or tissue replacements are needed. However, the lack of organs is the major limitation. The deceased organ procurement organization and professionals provide the solution to this international problem.
María Paula Gómez, Ricard Valero, Martí Manyalich, Carlos A. Mestres, G. Paez, Chloë Ballesté   +5 more
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The conduct of thoracic organ procurement

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2020
Transplantation has become the gold-standard treatment for endstage heart and lung failure. A well-executed procurement process is the cornerstone of a successful transplant program and patient outcome after transplantation. The aim of this review was to describe a standardized protocol and guidelines for optimal thoracic organ procurement.
Akshay Sharma, Matthias Peltz, Michael A Wait, Steves W Ring, Alok Mathur, Michael E Jessen, John S Murala   +6 more
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The Organization of Organ Procurement

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 1989
The American organ procurement system has improved and matured in the last five years. At the same time, the basic challenges facing it have remained substantially the same because the moral and legal framework of the system has not changed. Success at organ procurement continues to depend on the voluntary cooperation of medical professionals and the ...
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Impact of Donor Hepatectomy Time During Organ Procurement in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: The United Kingdom Experience

Transplantation, 2019
Background. No data exist to evaluate how hepatectomy time (HT), in the context of donation after cardiac death (DCD) procurement, impacts short- and long-term outcomes after liver transplantation (LT).
S. Farid, M. Attia, D. Vijayanand, V. Upasani, A. Barlow, S. Willis, E. Hidalgo, N. Ahmad   +7 more
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Organ Procurement and Transplantation

Nursing Clinics of North America, 1989
The path of successful organ transplants has been sown with considerable ethical, legal, social, and moral dilemmas. Some of these dilemmas have been addressed to the public's satisfaction, but many questions are left to be answered. The possibility of prolonging a life through high-technology medicine such as transplantation and through the use of ...
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The Give and Take of Organ Procurement

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1994
Scientific 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.
Douglas K. Martin, Eric M. Meslin
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Organ procurement for pulmonary transplantation [PDF]

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1989
Selection of suitable donors is critical to the success of clinical pulmonary transplantation. Requirements for lung donors, management before explantation, and methods of preservation were reviewed for the 70 heart-lung, eight double-lung, and two single-lung transplantations performed at the University of Pittsburgh since 1982. Careful observation of
J. Stephen Dummer, Robert D. Dowling, Robert L. Hardesty, Marco A. Zenati, Bartley P. Griffith, John M. Armitage, Robert L. Kormos   +6 more
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Organ procurement and transportation

1984
As transplantation of various organs has become successful for the treatment of a variety of clinical organ failures, the need for cadaver organs has increased dramatically. In the past, the attention of the surgeons was focused most often on the kidneys and little regard was given to the other vital organs.
K. M. Sigardson, F. K. Merkel
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Cost Structures of US Organ Procurement Organizations

Transplantation, 2021
Background. 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.
Frank McCormick, John P. Roberts, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Thomas Peters, Philip J. Held, William P. Vaughan, Glenn M. Chertow   +6 more
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