ISHLT position paper on thoracic organ transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCD)

Are Martin Holm; Andrew Courtwright; Anne Olland; Andreas Zuckermann; Dirk Van Raemdonck

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2022.03.005

ISHLT position paper on thoracic organ transplantation in controlled donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCD)

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2022 Jun;41(6):671-677. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2022.03.005. Epub 2022 Mar 14.

Authors

Are Martin Holm¹, Andrew Courtwright², Anne Olland³, Andreas Zuckermann⁴, Dirk Van Raemdonck⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; Inserm UMR 1260 "Regenerative Nanomedecine", University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.

PMID: 35370034
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2022.03.005

Abstract

Controlled organ donation after circulatory determination of death is increasingly being used for the donation of organs also in thoracic transplantation. This document outlines the position of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation on thoracic organ transplantation in circulatory determination of death. The document also includes a position regarding some of the methods applied to ensure the viability of Donation after Circulatory Death organs retrieved after certification of death.

Keywords: DCD; ISHLT; ethics in organ transplantation; organ donation.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Death
Humans
Lung Transplantation*
Organ Transplantation*
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement*