ReviewIntensive care medicine2016
Organ donation in adults: a critical care perspective.
Review in Intensive care medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04131140 (Differences Across ICUs in Organ Donation After Brain Death), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Differences Across ICUs in Organ Donation After Brain Death: A Nationwide Study of Relationship With Variation in End-of-life Decisions
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.
- Ethical tensions and professional attitudes toward circulatory death organ donation in the ICU: a systematic review.Intensive care medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Heart of the Matter: Staff Insights Into Organ Donation Conversations.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Physiotherapy in deceased organ donation: A mixed methods study of current practice and perceptions amongst UK-based intensive care physiotherapists.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2026Article
- Association of reduced physician requirements with brain death confirmation pathway duration and organ donation outcomes in the ICU: a retrospective cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2026Article
- A retrospective analysis of patients eligible for organ donation in adult intensive care units in Aotearoa New Zealand.Anaesthesia and intensive care · 2026Article
- Potential missed opportunities for organ donation: incidence and risk factors for non-referral among critically ill patients.Frontiers in transplantation · 2026Article
- Family refusal rates for organ donation after brain death and after circulatory death: a single-center 6-year experience.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2025Article
- Donation Physician Specialists and Missed Organ Donation Opportunities.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Anticipated Organ Donation Approach Increases the Number of Organ Donors.Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation · 2024Article
- Management of the brain-dead donor in the intensive care unit.Intensive care medicine · 2024Article
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- The circulatory death that saves lives-Intensive care nurses' conceptions of participating during 'donation after circulatory death': A phenomenographic study.Nursing open · 2024Article
- Attitudes That Might Impact upon Donation after Brain Death in Intensive Care Unit Settings: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Practice and challenges for organ donation after medical assistance in dying: A scoping review including the results of the first international roundtable in 2021.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022Article
- Brain herniation on computed tomography is a poor predictor of whether patients with a devastating brain injury can be confirmed dead using neurological criteria.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2022Article
- Donation after circulatory death and lung transplantation.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2022Review
- Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Potential Organ Donors-Rescue Prone Positioning: A Case Report.Transplantation proceedings · 2021Article
- A Novel Rat Model of Cardiac Donation After Circulatory Death Combined With NormothermicFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- NormothermicFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- The Impact of Religion and Provision of Information on Increasing Knowledge and Changing Attitudes to Organ Donation: An Intervention Study.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
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11 authors at 11 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
purposeThe shortage of organs for transplantation is an important medical and societal problem because transplantation is often the best therapeutic option for end-stage organ failure.
methodsWe review the potential deceased organ donation pathways in adult ICU practice, i.e. donation after brain death (DBD) and controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD), which follows the planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLST) and subsequent confirmation of death using cardiorespiratory criteria.
resultsStrategies in the ICU to increase the number of organs available for transplantation are discussed. These include timely identification of the potential organ donor, optimization of the brain-dead donor by aggressive management of the physiological consequence of brain death, implementation of cDCD protocols, and the potential for ex vivo perfusion techniques.
conclusionsOrgan donation should be offered as a routine component of the end-of-life care plan of every patient dying in the ICU where appropriate, and intensivists are the key professional in this process.
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