Favorable outcomes of kidneys from non-heart-beating donors whose cardiac arrest occurred out of hospital
David Talbot
Correspondence Freeman Hospital, Liver Unit, High Heaton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK
Email d.talbot@ncl.ac.uk
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NHBDs or 'donors after cardiac death', are donors who have had a cardiac arrest; after a 'no-touch time' (usually 5 min), death is declared and perfusion can commence. All such donors have been exposed to primary warm ischemia, so all their organs have been 'damaged'. The degree of damage is inversely related to the Maastricht grade: uncontrolled (Maastricht I and II) donors are subject to more ischemia than controlled (Maastricht III and IV) donors; Maastricht V donors lie somewhere between the two. See Supplementary Information online for definitions of the Maastricht grades.
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