Improving organ donation in Canada

SR Martin - CMAJ, 2007 - Can Med Assoc
1. Kondro W. Fragmented organ donation programs hinder progress. CMAJ 2006; 175 (9):
1043. 2. Shemie SD, Doig C, Dickens B, et al. Brain arrest: the neurological determination of …

Improving organ donation in Canada

Z Hong - CMAJ, 2007 - Can Med Assoc
1. Kondro W. Fragmented organ donation programs hinder progress. CMAJ 2006; 175 (9):
1043. 2. Shemie SD, Doig C, Dickens B, et al. Brain arrest: the neurological determination of …

[HTML][HTML] Fragmented organ donation programs hinder progress

W Kondro - 2006 - Can Med Assoc
Ontario and Quebec are informal partners in the US program, and the Western provinces
hope to establish a pilot collaborative soon. But insofar as Canada has anything like an …

How to improve organ donation rates

SD Shemie, C Doig, G Rocker, P Belitsky - CMAJ, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
In Canada, the primary postmortem source of transplantable organs is patients whose
deaths have been determined on the basis of brain death criteria (heart-beating donors) …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in deceased organ donation in Canada

SD Shemie - Cmaj, 2017 - Can Med Assoc
CMAJ| SEPTEMBER 25, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 38 E1205 after neurologic death and,
at times, with lower-quality transplant outcomes. Reassuringly, the widening availability of …

Innovations in organ donation

MJ Goldstein, N Lubezky, Y Yushkov… - Mount Sinai Journal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The growing disparity between organ availability for transplantation and the number of
patients in need has challenged the donation and transplantation community of practice to …

Donation after cardiac death

G Taylor, K Samartan, K Schroeter - SSM, 2003 - search.proquest.com
BACKGROUND Donation after cardiac death is different than donation after brain death. The
brain death policy has been followed for years, but it has limited the number of potential …

Worldwide barriers to organ donation

IRF Da Silva, JA Frontera - JAMA neurology, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The disparity between patients awaiting organ transplantation and organ
availability increases each year. As a consequence, organ trafficking has emerged and …

[HTML][HTML] A closer look at organ donation after cardiocirculatory death in Canada

A Baker - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d' …, 2009 - Springer
The world of organ and tissue transplantation is one of the major successes and good-news
stories in medicine. Central to the success of transplantation is the process of organ and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of a national controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) program on organ donation in the United Kingdom: a 10-year study

R Hodgson, AL Young, MA Attia, JPA Lodge - American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Organ transplantation is the most successful treatment for some forms of organ failure, yet a
lack of organs means many die on the waiting list. In the United Kingdom, the Organ …