Episode 68: DCD lung procurement in the UK

On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors invite first author Luke Williams, a cardiothoracic surgery trainee at Royal Papworth Hospital, NHS Blood and Transplant Clinical Research Fellow, and a PhD student at Cambridge University in the UK. Luke discusses his paper, “The United Kingdom’s experience of controlled donation after circulatory death direct procurement of lungs with concomitant abdominal normothermic regional perfusion with an analysis of short-term outcomes.”

The discussion explores:

• Requirements, regulations, and practices in the UK around DCD procurement and A-NRP
• How survival rates differ and what they might imply about primary graft dysfunction in DCD versus DBD
• Further work planned in the area in the UK and throughout Europe

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