Organ donation by patients with and without trauma in a Canadian province: a retrospective cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People who experience trauma represent a large pool of potential organ donors. Our objective was to describe organ donation by patients with and without trauma in Nova Scotia.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients with trauma in the Nova Scotia Trauma Registry who were injured between Apr. 1, 2009, and Mar. 31, 2016, and died in hospital, as well as all potential organ donors captured in the Nova Scotia Legacy of Life Donor Registry over the same period. We compared characteristics of the 2 groups with respect to organ donation and identified reasons for nondonation.

Results

Overall, 940 patients were included in the analysis, of whom 689 (73.3%) had experienced trauma. Patients with trauma accounted for 37.2% (48/129) of donors.

SUBMITTER: Lanteigne S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6182100 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature