The role of the Emergency Medical Services in organ donation
Whittier, F.C.; Boyd, D.R.; Warren, J.
Proceedings of the Clinical Dialysis and Transplant Forum 10: 155-159
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-6044 PMID: 7050978 Document Number: 156530
A potential need for more organ donors has been identified because of the improved survival rates of patients receiving kidney transplants and the reports of improving graft success rates. Because of the development of the EMS trauma program, an awareness of the potential benefit for increased organ donation could be realized by improved working relationship of the EMS trauma unit and the organ recovery agency. In the final analysis, careful planning of a regionwide program for organ recovery by the organ retrieval groups to include the EMS trauma unit should result in an increased number of cadaveric kidneys for transplantation.