Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Controlled donation after circulatory death in post-cardiac arrest patients: Estimates from a large registry
Authors' conclusion
Organ donation by cDCD after cardiac arrest could provide a large pool of donors in France.
Study context
- Population
- Adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and stable return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) who died in intensive care unit (ICU) after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLST) due to post-anoxic brain injury, Paris and suburbs, 2011–2018of 4638 admitted to ICU
- Participants
- 1,034 adults
- Outcome
- Potential for organ donation by cDCD
Methodological detailsregional registry (Great Paris area)
- Regional registry (Great Paris area)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Potential cDCD donors (French criteria)
Potential cDCD donors
421/1034
41%
Potential cDCD donors per year in a 4.67 million population
55
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Extrapolated cDCD potential in France (standardised for age and sex)
- Patients per year in France
- 515 (95% CI 471-560)
- Annual incidence per 100 000 inhabitants
- 1.18
Original publication
Controlled donation after circulatory death in post-cardiac arrest patients: Estimates from a large registry. Resuscitation. Published 4 April 2024. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it