Organ donation after trauma: A 30-year review

BACKGROUND Over the past 30 years, the demographics, clinical characteristics, and management of trauma patients have changed dramatically. During this same period, the organ donor population has also changed. The interactions between these two demographic shifts have not been examined in a systematic way. We hypothesize that trauma victims continue to be an important source of organs. We set out to systematically examine traumatic donors in an attempt to identify opportunities to increase organ recovery and quality. METHODS In this retrospective analysis, we compared trauma donors (TDs) and non-TDs (NTDs) in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients standard analysis files, a clinical data set collected by the Organ Procurement Transplant Network on all solid organ transplant candidates, donors, and recipients in the United States since 1987. RESULTS Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients contained data on 191,802 deceased donors. The percentage of TDs decreased from 55.3% in 1987 to 35.8% in 2016 (p
Source: The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research