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8 Callaghan and Bradley<br />

Table 3<br />

Maastricht Categories of Non-Heart-Beating Donors<br />

Maastricht<br />

category Description Location<br />

1 Dead on arrival Outside hospital,<br />

emergency room<br />

2 Unsuccessful Emergency room,<br />

resuscitation intensive care, general ward<br />

3 Treatment withdrawn, Intensive care<br />

awaiting cardiac arrest<br />

4 Cardiac arrest while Intensive care<br />

brainstem dead<br />

From ref. 38.<br />

sent to donation to be taken from relatives. Once medical intervention has been<br />

withdrawn and death has been declared by the medical staff, the transplant<br />

team waits a further 5–10 min before starting the organ-retrieval operation.<br />

The insertion of medical devices into uncontrolled NHBDs before consent<br />

has been obtained from the relatives raises ethical and legal questions (40). In<br />

the United Kingdom, the acceptance of this technique in potential uncontrolled<br />

donors has been achieved by discussions with the local ethics committee and<br />

by requesting the coroner’s permission before inserting a double-balloon triplelumen<br />

catheter (41).<br />

The principal concern relating to renal transplants from NHBDs is the higher<br />

rates of delayed graft function (DGF) and primary nonfunction (PNF) when<br />

compared to kidneys from cadaveric heart-beating donors (42,43). Careful<br />

donor selection may minimize PNF (44,45), and despite a higher incidence<br />

of DGF than after transplantation with kidneys from cadaveric heart-beating<br />

donors, the long-term survival of heart-beating and NHBD kidneys is very<br />

similar (43–45). Other trials report similar PNF rates between the two groups.<br />

Although DGF after transplantation of kidneys from cadaveric heart-beating<br />

donors may be associated with reduced long-term graft survival (46), the longterm<br />

graft survival of NHBD grafts appears comparable to cadaveric heartbeating<br />

grafts.<br />

There are significant logistical difficulties in instituting a NHBD program.<br />

Referrals of potential uncontrolled donors call for enthusiasm and dedication<br />

from accident and emergency department staff and a rapid response from the<br />

transplant team. Controlled NHBDs often require the surgical team and operating<br />

room nursing staff to wait for prolonged periods for the patient to develop<br />

asystole once ventilation has been discontinued.

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