Longer wait from treatment withdrawal to circulatory death may increase organ availability
Extending the wait time between life-sustaining treatment withdrawal and circulatory death to 3 hours may boost the number of available deceased-donor kidneys for transplantation, data show.“For patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing dialysis, a kidney transplant offers advantages in survival, quality of life and health care costs,” Samuel J. Tingle, MBBS, of the National