Deaths with acute cerebral lesions in ICU: does the number of potential organ donors depend on predictable factors?
Predictable factors associated with BD declaration can be identified in ACLD management. Positive factors leading to the identification of potential organ donors, i.e., the capacity of declaring BD in all the patients fulfilling BD criteria irrespective of age and etiology, could be captured in the best performing regions and reproduced throughout the Country. The implementation of simple indicators based on prospective ACLD monitoring, i.e. the declared BDs to ACLDs in ICU ratio, may be helpful in achieving efficiency targets and reliable comparisons of outcomes in the identification of BD potential organ donors.
4D-CT pulmonary ventilation images vary widely with DIR algorithms and metrics. Careful physiologic validation to determine the appropriate DIR algorithm and metric is needed prior to its applications.