Heart-lung toolkits
View resources for heart- and lung-specific policies, calculators, and related educational resources.
Heart
Policy
- OPTN Policy 6: Allocation of hearts and heart-lungs
- OPTN heart resources
- Toolkits:
Professional education
Go to UNOS Connect to access educational offerings. Select “Heart” in the course catalog.
Patient education
Learn more about:
- a heart transplant on Transplant Living
- heart allocation on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
Lung
Policy
- OPTN policies 6 and 10: Allocation of heart-lungs, and lungs
- OPTN lung resources
- Toolkit: Lung continuous distribution policy
Professional education
Go to UNOS Connect to access educational offerings. Select “Lung” in the course catalog.
Patient education
Learn about
- a lung transplant on Transplant Living
- lung allocation on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
- Narrated, animated video describes, in plain language, the lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS)
Allocation calculators
Lung Composite Allocation Score (Lung CAS) resources