Publications by authors named "Shena M Graham"
Objectives: To describe the design, development and implementation of an organ and tissue donation after cardiac death (DCD) program, evaluate its success and assess its impact on tissue and organ availability and the number of donors after brain death.
Design, Participants And Setting: Prospective collection of patient characteristics and outcomes for actual and potential donors from 2000 to 2010, thus including the 5 years after the implementation of a DCD program at a major Australian tertiary hospital in 2006.
Main Outcome Measures: The number and type of donors before and after implementation of the DCD program, and subsequent numbers of solid organ and tissue donations.