An organization's decision to offer a pediatric DCD program is debatable on numerous levels. Our focus groups raised important questions that each organization will need to address before implementing ...

27 April 2025, Boston—Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) marked the 10-year anniversary of modern heart ...

Objectives: The aims of this project were to describe whether pediatric clinical staff members believe that a donation after cardiac death (DCD) program could be consistent with the mission and core ...

Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) marked the 10-year anniversary of modern heart donation after ...

The benefit to grieving families that deceased organ donation provides is well documented and the use of DCD organs expands this opportunity. 7 In fact, the genesis of the DCD program in my own ...

Since Canada introduced a new organ donation policy in 2006 called “circulatory determination of death” (DCD), Ontario has seen a 57% increase in donation ...