Observational Study
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2016. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Transplant. Jun 24, 2016; 6(2): 423-428
Published online Jun 24, 2016. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v6.i2.423
Deceased donor organ procurement injuries in the United States
Tim E Taber, Nikole A Neidlinger, Muhammad A Mujtaba, Elling E Eidbo, Roxane L Cauwels, Elizabeth M Hannan, Jennifer R Miller, Anil S Paramesh
Tim E Taber, Indiana Donor Network, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States
Nikole A Neidlinger, Donor Network West, San Francisco, CA 94583, United States
Muhammad A Mujtaba, Department of Nephrology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550, United States
Elling E Eidbo, Roxane L Cauwels, Elizabeth M Hannan, Jennifer R Miller, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Vienna, VA 22182, United States
Anil S Paramesh, Tulane Transplant Institute, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States
Anil S Paramesh, Louisiana Organ Procurement Association, New Orleans, LA 70002, United States
Author contributions: Taber TE, Neidlinger NA and Paramesh AS contributed to the conception and design of the study; Taber TE and Mujtaba MA contributed to the acquisition and analysis of the data; all of the authors contributed to the drafting and critical revisions of the manuscript and gave final approval of the article to be published.
Institutional review board statement: As the study was done on deceased donors, no institutional review board approval was obtained (see body of manuscript).
Informed consent statement: As this was a study looking at deceased donor procurements, there are are no patients to consent as the subjects are legally dead per US law. Hence, we are asking for a waiver of informed consent requirements.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at Dryad repository, who will provide a permanent, citable and open-access home for the dataset. In addition, a copy of the signed statement should be provided to the BPG in PDF format.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Anil S Paramesh, MD, FACS, Tulane Transplant Institute, 1415 Tulane Ave, HC-5, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States. anil.paramesh@hcahealthcare.com
Telephone: +1-504-9880783 Fax: +1-504-9887510
Received: January 30, 2016
Peer-review started: February 1, 2016
First decision: March 15, 2016
Revised: April 26, 2016
Accepted: May 17, 2016
Article in press: May 27, 2016
Published online: June 24, 2016
Processing time: 144 Days and 9.8 Hours
Core Tip

Core tip: This study represents a unique report looking into the incidence of surgical injuries during deceased donor organ procurement. There is no other large scale study reporting this. This represents a multi-organizational study, collecting data prospectively over a period of a year. This study will hopefully help define the problem and contribute to the development of basic standards that organ procurement organizations can follow across the country.