Predicting Donor Death: Early Changes in Oxygen Saturation After Withdrawal of Support Predict Successful Donation During Donation After Circulatory Death

摘要

Background. We have previously shown that approximately 27% of patients do not progress to death in time to donate organs after attempted donation after circulatory death (DCD). As such, nearly 1000 transplants per year are not possible. One way to convert unsuccessful donations to successful donations is to increase procurement team "stand-down" times; however, increased stand-down times may predispose transplantable organs to increased ischemic damage.