Opening a Donor Management Center
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Published on: August 15, 2022
Emma Max1, Meredith MacKenzie-Greenle, Jamie Ann Acero-Webb
1Emma Max works in the Gift of Life Donor Program at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Meredith MacKenzie-Greenle is an assistant professor in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University in Villanova, PA. Jamie Ann Acero-Webb is a clinical nurse specialist at Penn Medicine, where Leah Lambe is a nurse manager, Niels D. Martin is chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, and Emily Vail is codirector of the Penn Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation. Contact author: Emma Max, emmarmaxrn@gmail.com . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Abstract:
In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. In response to the growing need for viable organs to transplant, donor management centers have opened to provide care to brain-dead organ donors prior to the organ procurement operation. This article describes donor management center operations, details the opening of one such unit, and describes the results and lessons learned. More research is needed on the impact of nursing care on the specialized organ donor population.
