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Background
Obstacles encountered during the organ donation process may result in the loss of organs. A centralized medical advisory service (MAS), providing a 24/7/365 service, was established in 2007 to respond to queries from healthcare professionals regarding organ safety, brain death (BD) determination, and donor management.
Methods
Data collected from 2007 to 2017 included the number and context...
Organ transplantation remains the optimal treatment for many patients suffering from end‐stage organ disease. Increasing numbers of patients admitted to intensive care units, among them potential heart‐beating, brain‐dead organ donors, are exposed to infections with multidrug‐resistant organisms, in particular carbapenem‐resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR‐KP). An extensive literature search failed...
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