Donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD)

Resources

• Clinical tools and resources for DCD

Journal publications

• Maintaining the permanence principle for death during in situ normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death organ recovery: A United Kingdom and Canadian proposal (January 2020); Manara A, Shemie S, Large S, Healey A, Baker A, Badiwala M, Berman M, Butler A, Chaudhury P, Dark J, Forsythe J, Freed D, Gardiner D, Harvey D, Hornby L, MacLean J, Messer S, Oniscu G, Simpson C, Teitelbaum J, Torrance S, Wilson L, Watson C.
• Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death in Canada (October 2006) Sam D. Shemie, Andrew J. Baker, Greg Knoll, William Wall, Graeme Rocker, Daniel Howes, Janet Davidson, Joe Pagliarello, Jane Chambers-Evans, Sandra Cockfield, Catherine Farrell, Walter Glannon, William Gourlay, David Grant, Stéphan Langevin, Brian Wheelock, Kimberly Young and John Dossetor CMAJ October 10, 2006 175 (8) S1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.060895
  • Additional materials published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal; Commentary; Electronic Letters
• Patient engagement in a Canadian consensus forum for heart donation after circulatory determination of death. Healey A, van Beinum A, Hornby L, Wilson LC, Bédard S, Berrigan H, Brodrecht D, Gillrie C, Shing T, Towers J, Tilokee E, Shemie SD.Can J Anaesth. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01808-z. 

Presentation recordings

• DCD Implementation Workshop 2014

Report and recommendations

PDF copies of the following reports are available by request. Submit a request by sending an email to OTDT@blood.ca, please include the title and use the subject line: PDF Document Request.

• Donation after cardiocirculatory death: A Canadian forum (July 2005)