Critical Care Canada Forum (CCCF) – Deceased Donation Scientific Symposium 2025

The following videos from the 2025 Deceased Donation Stream were recorded in partnership with Ontario Health – Trillium Gift of Life Network at the Critical Care Canada Forum in 2025.

Presentations from the Deceased Donation Stream were combined into 4 videos for each of the sessions. They include:

Maintaining Trust in the Canadian Organ Donation System

Fragile Trust, Strong Safeguards - Current Actions and Emerging Vulnerabilities - Dr. Andrew Healey
Planting "Seeds of Trust" in Care for Donation in the ICU - Dr. Mary Ott
Trust in Transition of Care: Alberta’s SEND Program in Organ Donation - Dr. Andreas Kramer
Co-Creating Educational Materials with Donor Families: A Path to Strengthen Trust in Organ Donation and Donation Research - Dr. Nicholas Murphy
Panel Discussion

Dying Physiology & the Donor Family Experience

Predicting Death after WLST - Avoiding the Second Loss - Dr. Julie Kromm
Physiological Insights into Death Determination by Circulatory Criteria - Dr. Matthew Kolisnyk
Family Experiences in End-of-Life Care and Deceased Organ Donation - Dr. Amanda Van Beinum
Donor Family Experience - Maryam De Groef
Panel Discussion

New and Evolving Science in Donation & Transplant

Decedent Lung Study - Flattening Allocation for All Blood Types? - Dr. Aizhou Wang
AI Prediction of Warm Ischemic Time - Dr. Andrew Seely
INDex-CTP and Impact on Ancillary Testing Guidance - Dr. Michäel Chassé
Ancillary Testing Cases and Walking Forward - Dr. Gordon Boyd
Panel Discussion

Resuscitating Organs After Death

Normothermic Regional Perfusion - Science in Evolution - Dr. Marat Slessarev
Liver and Kidney Machine Perfusion - Dr. Markus Selzner
Direct Perfusion DCC Heart - A New Approach - Dr. Ali Rabi
Donor Care Units - Dr. Emily Vail
Panel Discussion