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Resultados: 6

UK guidelines on transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death

Transplantation offers patients with end-stage organ failure a cost-effective treatment that can improve quality of life and increase life expectancy. Prior to the introduction of guidance defining the concept of brain death in the 1970s, all organs donated for transplantation were from donation after ci...

Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death-Summary Report

Pediatr. crit. care med; 18 (11), 2017
OBJECTIVES: Create trustworthy, rigorous, national clinical practice guidelines for the practice of pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death in Canada. METHODS: We followed a process of clinical practice guideline development based on World Health Organization and Canadian Medical Asso...

Organ donation for transplantation: improving donor identification and consent rates for deceased organ donation

This guideline covers identifying people who wish to donate their organs after their death. It offers advice on how to approach families and carers of people who are nearing the end of life and how to seek consent for organ donation. It aims to promote discussion of organ donation as part of end-of-life ...

Guideline: HLA matching and donor selection for haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation

Int J Immunogenet; 43 (5), 2016
A review of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI) "Guideline for selection and HLA matching of related, adult unrelated donors and umbilical cord units for haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation" was undertaken by a BSHI appointed writing committee. Literature searc...

European Renal Best Practice Guideline on kidney donor and recipient evaluation and perioperative care

Nephrol. dial. transplant; 30 (11), 2015
The European Best Practice Guideline group (EBPG) issued guidelines on the evaluation and selection of kidney donor and kidney transplant candidates, as well as post-transplant recipient care, in the year 2000 and 2002. The new European Renal Best Practice board decided in 2009 that these guidelines need...

Summary of the British Transplantation Society guidelines for transplantation from donors after deceased circulatory death

Transplantation; 97 (3), 2014
The second edition of the British Transplantation Society Guidelines for Transplantation from Donors after Deceased Circulatory Death was published in June 2013. The guideline has been extensively revised since the previous edition in 2004 and has used the GRADE system to rate the strength of evidence an...