[Organ procurement in France: new challenges].

France has reached a pretty good level of activity, comparable to southern European countries: in 2011, 4945 transplantations (TX) have been performed among them, 2976 (60%) kidney TX, 1164 (24%) liver TX, 398 (8%) heart TX and 312 (6.3%) lung TX. However, the progression has slowed down since 2008 like in many countries.

The French organ transplant data system.

The Agence de la Biomédecine is a state agency dealing with Public Health issues related, among others, to organ, tissue and cell transplantation in France. The Agence maintains a national information system used to coordinate and administer organ procurement and transplant activities and to perform the evaluation of organ transplantation activities. This paper describes the core uses and functional requirements of Cristal, the donor, recipient and allocation software of the information system and its evolution in the new system.

A survey on patients admitted in severe coma: implications for brain death identification and organ donation.

Objective: To identify factors to improve the identification of brain dead patients in intensive care units (ICUs).

Design And Setting: Prospective study conducted in 79 ICUs in 54 hospitals.

Patients: All hospitalized patients with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score less than 8.