Author: Colleen Jay, MD, MSCI, FACS

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the pathophysiology and consequences of brain death.
2. Provide updated evidence-based guidelines for medical management of potential donors.
3. Touch on organ donor evaluation and allocation considerations.
4. Understand the pathophysiology of ischemia reperfusion injury and review the basics of common preservation fluids.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand preoperative preparation for organ recovery
2. Describe the technique of the operation and specific considerations for procuring each organ
3. Learn where you can get in trouble and how to stay/get out of it

Author: David Ryan Hall, MD

Author: David P. Al-Adra, MD, PhD

1. Recognize donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors are a source of transplantable organs

2. Appreciate the outcomes for DCD kidney and liver transplants are improving

3. Understand the multiple potential mechanisms of graft failure after DCD liver transplantation

4. Be aware of how donor-recipient matching may decrease biliary complications and improve graft survival.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the growth of donation after circulatory death in the U.S. and increasing opportunities for extra-renal organ utilization.

2. Explain the principles of organ donation after circulatory death.

3. Describe the recovery factors impacting the outcomes of organs recovered from donation after circulatory death donors

Author: Mark Hobeika, MD