Management of the neurologically deceased organ donor: A Canadian clinical practice guideline

In 2006, the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation produced the first Canadian recommendations for organ donor management, the result of a 2004 forum in collaboration with the Canadian Critical Care Society, the Canadian Association of Transplantation and the Canadian Society of Transplantation. The 2006 guideline had an influence on organ donation recommendations internationally; however, it had not been updated to incorporate emerging evidence in organ donor management and critical care medicine and the many advances in guideline development methodology. Here, Ball et al discuss the existing Canadian recommendations for the medical management of neurologically deceased adult and pediatric potential donors for the purposes of single- or multi-organ recovery for transplantation.