Erschienen in:
25.01.2024 | Editorial
Intensive care admission aiming at organ donation. Con
verfasst von:
Marco Vergano, Christian Jung, Victoria Metaxa
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2024
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Excerpt
Significant disparity between organ donors and people awaiting transplantation remains a worldwide problem. In 2021, according to the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation, less than 10% of the global needs were met, despite an 11% increase in organ transplantation over the previous year [
1]. Contributing to the imbalance are organisational and cultural barriers, including variability in the concept, criteria, practices and documentation of death by neurologic criteria (DNC), as well as legal and ethical concerns around organ donation (OD) after circulatory death (DCD) [
2,
3]. …