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A donor after cardiac death (DCD) is a donor who has suffered devastating and irreversible brain injury and may be near death, but does not meet formal brain death criteria. In these cases, the family has decided to allow a natural death.
Controlled donation after cardiac death (DCD) offers the family and the patient with a hopeless prognosis the option to donate when brain death criteria will not be met. Although DCD is increasing, this endeavor is still in the midst of development.
Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) has been endorsed by the World Health Organization and is practiced worldwide. This overview examines current DCD practices, identifies problems and challenges, and suggests clinical strategies for possible improvement.
When a family decides to take a patient off life support, the patient may be eligible to donate his or her organs once the heart stops beating. This type of donation is called donation after cardiac death.
Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is a pathway to organ donation which can occur when a patient dies from cardiac arrest in the hospital. A potential DCD donor patient has a devastating, non-survivable neurologic injury and is on a ventilator.
Donation after cardiac death raises a number of special ethical concerns, including how and when death is declared, potential conflicts of interest for physicians in managing the withdrawal of life support for a patient whose organs are to be retrieved for transplantation, and the use of a surrogate decision maker.
Conventionally, heart transplant has relied on donation after brain death for organ recovery. Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is the donation of the heart after confirming that circulatory function has irreversibly ceased. DCD-orthotopic heart transplant differs from donation after brain death-orthotopic heart transplant in ways that ...
To highlight the current global experience with DCD heart transplantation and explore the evolution of, and compare preservation strategies; examine early clinical outcomes, and discuss the growing use of DCD donors as a new frontier in heart transplantation.
Early US experience with cardiac donation after circulatory death (DCD) using normothermic regional perfusion. J Heart Lung Transplant 2021;40:1408-18. American College of Physicians.
We designed the Donors after Circulatory Death Heart Trial to determine whether clinical outcomes in patients who had undergone transplantation with a heart that had been reanimated with...