Characteristics of donor lungs declined on site and impact of lung allocation policy change.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

National and institutional data suggest an increase in organ discard rate (donor lungs procured but not implanted) after a new lung allocation policy was introduced in 2017. However, this measure does not include on-site decline rate (donor lungs declined intraoperatively). The objective of this study is to examine the impact of the allocation policy change on on-site decline.

Methods

We used a Washington University (WU) and our local organ procurement organization (Mid-America Transplant [MTS]) database to abstract data on all accepted lung offers from 2014 to 2021. An on-site decline was defined as an event in which the procuring team declined the organs intraoperatively, and the lungs were not procured. Logistic regression models were used to investigate potenti

SUBMITTER: Terada Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533747 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature