ICU · Transplant / organ donation

Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) & Recipient Logistics

Also known as Donation after circulatory death · DCD · Donation after brain death · DBD · Organ donation · Warm ischaemia time · Cold ischaemia time · Normothermic regional perfusion · NRP · Organ retrieval

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) — the organ donation after the confirmed the circulatory the death (the five-minute the observation the period, the no the auto-resuscitation). Distinguished from the donation after the brain death (DBD — the brainstem the death). The DCD the process: the withdrawal of the life-sustaining the therapy (WLST), the five-minute the asystole the confirmation, the warm ischaemia the time (the WIT — the graft-viability the determinant; accepted limits vary by the centre and the organ), the retrieval, the cold the ischaemia (the ice). The normothermic the regional the perfusion (NRP — the improves the utilization and the transplant the outcomes). The recipient the logistics — the matching, the transport (the cold the ischaemia), the transplant.