Improving quality of withdrawal of life-sustaining measures in organ donation: a framework and implementation toolkit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) is responsible for the largest increase in deceased donation over the past decade. When the Canadian DCD guideline was published in 2006, it included recommendations to create standard policies and procedures for withdrawal of life-sustaining measures (WLSM) as well as quality assurance frameworks for this practice. In 2016, the Canadian Critical Care Society produced a guideline for WLSM that requires modifications to facilitate implementation when DCD is part of the end-of-life care plan.

Methods

A pan-Canadian multidisciplinary collaborative was convened to examine the existing guideline framework and to create tools to put the existing guideline into practice in centres that practice DCD.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Healey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546981 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature