ArticleCanadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie2020
Improving quality of withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in organ donation: a framework and implementation toolkit.
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- Regional Variation in Transplant Utilization and Agonal Times among Donation after Circulatory Death Lung Donors in the United States.Clinical transplantation · 2026Article
- An Integrative Review on Exploring Organ Donation After Death by Circulatory Criteria in Canada.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2025Review
- Beliefs of physician directors on the management of devastating brain injuries at the Canadian emergency department and intensive care unit interface: a national site-level survey.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
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- Quality improvement tools to manage deceased organ donation processes: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Donation after circulatory death and lung transplantation.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2022Review
- Expanding controlled donation after the circulatory determination of death: statement from an international collaborative.Intensive care medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDonation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) is responsible for the largest increase in deceased donation over the past decade. When the Canadian DCD guideline was published in 2006, it included recommendations to create standard policies and procedures for withdrawal of life-sustaining measures (WLSM) as well as quality assurance frameworks for this practice. In 2016, the Canadian Critical Care Society produced a guideline for WLSM that requires modifications to facilitate implementation when DCD is part of the end-of-life care plan.
methodsA pan-Canadian multidisciplinary collaborative was convened to examine the existing guideline framework and to create tools to put the existing guideline into practice in centres that practice DCD.
resultsA set of guiding principles for implementation of the guideline in DCD practice were produced using an iterative, consensus-based approach followed by development of four implementation tools and three quality assurance and audit tools.
conclusionsThe tools developed will aid DCD centres in fulsomely adapting the Canadian Critical Care Society Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures guideline.
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