Process Improvement in Thoracic Donor Organ Procurement: Implementation of a Donor Assessment Checklist.

Background: Donor organs are often procured by junior staff in stressful, unfamiliar environments where a single adverse event can be catastrophic. A formalized checklist focused on preprocedural processes related to thoracic donor organ procurement could improve detection and prevention of near miss events.

Methods: A checklist was developed centered on patient identifiers, organ compatibility and quality, and team readiness.

Association between postoperative acute kidney injury and duration of cardiopulmonary bypass: a meta-analysis.

Objective: This meta-analysis examined the association between cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) time and acute kidney injury (AKI).

Design: Meta-analysis of previously published studies.

Setting: Each single-center study was conducted in a surgical intensive care unit and/or academic or university hospital.