Neuroanesthesia & neurocritical care
Potential organ donors during two years at the second largest hospital in Norway
Authors' conclusion
Our study cannot explain the low number of donors in our region compared with the rest of Norway. If all potential donations were implemented, the number of actual donors would double. Patients dying outside the intensive care units represent the largest potential source for extra donors, maximally increasing the number of donors by 42%, high-quality livers 44% and kidneys 18%. Introducing organ donation after circulatory death may increase the number of donors by 15% and the number of high-quality livers and kidneys by 12%.
Study context
- Population
- All patients who died at Haukeland University Hospital, Norway, in 2018–19
- Participants
- 1,453 in-hospital deaths
- Outcome
- Total number of potential donors and donor organs, and where and why potential donors were lost
- Follow-up
- 2 years
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Potential and actual organ donors
- Brain-dead patients who became actual donors
- 20
- Potential donors not evaluated at the ICUs (1 brain-dead, 2 other, 1 of them discharged to a bed ward)
- 3
- Relatives refused
- 5
- Fulfilled 2021 Norwegian criteria for donation after circulatory death
- 3
- Potential donors after brain death never admitted to ICU, died on neurological or neurosurgical wards
- 10
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Potential organ donors during two years at the second largest hospital in Norway. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 27 May 2024. doi:10.
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