Organ Donation
The deceased donation program focuses on evolving the quality and safety of national organ donation services in Canada, which will result in continued improvement for access to lifesaving organs and transplants for all Canadians. Work in this area includes initiatives that provide the requisite knowledge, training and skills to healthcare professionals and shift the culture of organ donation to ensure that performance is measured, monitored and that additional system accountabilities to support progress in this area are in place. The deceased donation program also supports public education through engagement and awareness.
Reports
- Current use, capacity and perceived barriers to the use of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada (November 2020)
- ECPR for OHCA in Canada: Planning the Research (April 2017)
- Opportunities and Barriers for ECPR in Canada (May 2016)
- Ethics Guide for Donation Physicians (November 2015)
- Environmental Scan of Professional Education for Donation (March 2017)
- Report on the consultation: “Donation Physicians in a Coordinated OTDT System" (February 2011)
- Report on the ethics consultation (January 2011)
- OTDT Professional Survey. (February 2011)
- Views Toward Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (Public Survey). (July 2010)
Leading practices and guidlines for deceased donation can be found here
Publications
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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. open access link
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CAEP Position Statement - Management of devastating brain injuries in the emergency department: Enhancing neuroprognostication and maintaining the opportunity for organ and tissue donation (June 2020) Healey A, Leeies M, Hrymak C, Chochinov A, Grunau B, Paunovic B, Teitelbaum J, Wilson L, Shemie S
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Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic CriteriaThe World Brain Death Project (August 2020) Greer, D; D. Shemie, S.; Lewis, A.; Torrance, S; et al open access link
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Click here to learn more about the implications of the World Brain Death Project on Canadian death determination practices
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- 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. open access link
- Survey of Canadian intensivists on physician non-referral and family override of deceased organ donation (November 2019); Weiss M, English S, D'Aragon F, Lauzier F, Turgeon A, Dhanani S, McIntyre L, Shemie S, Knoll G, Fergusson D, Anthony S, Haj-Moustafa A, Hartell D, Mohr J, Chassé M. open access link
- Ethical Challenges and the Donation Physician Specialist: A Scoping Review. MacDonald SI, Shemie SD. open access link
- Barriers and opportunities related to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada: A report from the first meeting of the Canadian ECPR Research Working Group (July 2018) open access link
- Ethics Guide Recommendations for Organ-Donation–Focused Physicians Endorsed by the Canadian Medical Association Shemie SD, Simpson C, Blackmer J,MacDonald S,Dhanani S,Torrance S,Byrne P, and on behalf of the Donation Physician Ethics Guide Meeting Participants. open access link
- Development of a national minimum data set to monitor deceased organ donation performance in Canada (June 2016); Hornby K, Shemie SD, Appleby A, Dodd N, Gill J, Kim J, Kramer A, Kutsogiannis DJ, Lahaie N, MacLean J, Rehel L, Webster G, Wu J, Scales DC open access link