Transplantation proceedings
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Multicenter Study
Detection of potential organ donors: 2-year analysis of deaths at a German university hospital.
In 2006, inhouse coordinators were introduced in all hospitals with intensive care units in Baden-Württemberg to improve organ donation. At our university hospital with a neurosurgery and a transplantation unit, we analyzed whether brain death certification and donation requests were always initiated (if possible). ⋯ The detection of donors was not acceptable. In patients without a prognosis after resuscitation, further hemodynamic stabilization was frequently omitted, because organ donation had not been considered. In cases of donation requests the refusal rate was high. We initiated specific training.