Updates to OPO notification limits for electronic notification for heart, lung, and heart-lung matches
New update for electronic organ offer notifications provide additional efficiency and flexibility about how to offer organs.
Call for nominations for OPTN Heart Committee and Lung Committee
The OPTN Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee and create two new OPTN committees in its place. Nomination period closes March 25, 2020.
The new adult heart allocation policy is now in effect
Audience: Transplant administrators, clinical coordinators, data coordinators, physicians, and surgeons from heart and heart/lung programs, OPO executive directors Implementation date:Tooltip Text October 18, 2018: The new adult heart allocation policy is now in...
Changes to Adult Heart Allocation Policy Effective this Fall
Start Preparing Now; new patient-focused resources available.
Lung program clinical trial begins July 9
The trial will test the effect of an open lung protective ventilation protocol compared to conventional mechanical ventilation on donor lung utilization for transplantation. Get more information on the Clinicaltrials.gov website.
Policy modification to lung distribution sequence
Effective at 8 p.m. Eastern time, November 24, 2017, the OPTN lung allocation system was modified.