OBJECTIVE: This study aims to determine the failure rate of transplanted kidney grafts in
recipients of organs from non-heart beating donors (NHBDs) who have had mechanical …

OBJECTIVE: The Medical Emergencies Service of Madrid (Spain)(Servicio de Urgencias
Medicas de Madrid), SUMMA112, forms part of an organ donor program involving patients …

Objective To determine the number of potential deceased organ donors from out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest cases (OHCA) attended by public physician-led emergency medical services …

Introduction The use of devices that provide continuous positive pressure in the airway has
shown improvement in various pathologies that cause respiratory failure. In the COVID 19 …

Aim To analyse the association between donor capnometry data and the short-term
evolution of kidney grafts in cases of uncontrolled donation after circulatory death (uDCD) …

Background In 2005, our center started a donation after cardiac death (DACD) program, by
which patients who present an irreversible cardiac arrest outside hospital are brought to our …

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to reach expert consensus on specific learning outcomes (LOs)
that can be achieved through clinical simulation aimed at developing the competencies that …

Background Organ and tissue recovery remains limited by several factors. This study
retrospectively analyzes the factors associated with family refusal to consent to donation at a …

METHODS This was a retrospective study based on a continuous OHCA registry of the EMS
Servicio de Urgencia Médica de la Comunidad de Madrid (SUMMA 112) in Spain. The …

Mechanical chest compression (MCC) devices are routinely used in uncontrolled non-heart
beating donors (NHBD), but findings are controversial. Although pulmonary parenchymal …