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When minutes matter: The issues at stake in organ transportation

When minutes matter: The issues at stake in organ transportation

Feb 15, 2023 | Insights, Insights feature, News

A look at the intersecting challenges in organ transportation and a call for government and industry leaders to join the donation and transplant community in finding national-level solutions that ensure donor organs get safely to patients in need.

The ethical implications of continuing living donor transplants during COVID-19

The ethical implications of continuing living donor transplants during COVID-19

Sep 24, 2021 | Insights, Insights feature, News

Paper offers rationale and recommendations for continuing living donor transplantation when resources are stretched

Trailblazing physician broke barriers to become nation’s first Black female transplant surgeon

Trailblazing physician broke barriers to become nation’s first Black female transplant surgeon

Feb 25, 2021 | Insights, Insights feature, News

Dr. Velma Scantlebury-White, who has performed more than 2,000 transplants in her career, says there have been significant changes in terms of achieving equity access in the allocation system for minority patients, but some issues persist.

Hypothermic machine perfusion: An alternative for organ preservation

Hypothermic machine perfusion: An alternative for organ preservation

Jan 6, 2020 | Insights, News

Could hypothermic machine perfusion offer a safer way to transport organs?

Increasing lung utilization through organ perfusion

Increasing lung utilization through organ perfusion

Apr 22, 2019 | Insights, News

UNOS talks with Matthew Hartwig, M.D., of Duke University Medical School about the transformative potential of ex vivo lung perfusion.

Game changers: At the forefront of organ perfusion technology

Game changers: At the forefront of organ perfusion technology

Apr 15, 2019 | Insights, News

UNOS looks at the companies leading the way in organ perfusion technology and their potential impact on transplantation

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Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD)

Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) by Andrew Klein, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, UNOS.

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Donor hospitals are not subject to OPTN policies but transplant hospitals are. So who’s responsible for overseeing donor hospitals?

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UNOS uses the same process for data requests from the OPTN as any other entity and can provide aggregated, limited or patient-level information about a variety of subjects due to our deep knowledge and understanding based on decades of experience.

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