Organ Procurement From Donors After Brain Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience of a High Prevalence Country.

Objectives: Our aim was to compare the donation process before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in an organ procurement unit in Iran and to discuss different strategies to address the impact of the pandemic on the donation process.

Materials And Methods: All activities including donor detection, donor selection, family approach, donors characteristics, rate of organs per donor, and types of organs were compared between 2 intervals over 18 months (March 2020 to June 2021 [during the COVID19 pandemic] vs November 2018 to February 2020 [before the pandemic]).

Results: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 218 and 137 brain dead donors with mean age of 42.