POTENTIAL DONOR AUDIT

POTENTIAL DONOR AUDIT 36-MONTH SUMMARY REPORT 1 APRIL 2003 – 31 MARCH 2006 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Fully validated data from the Potential Donor Audit (PDA) covering the 36-month period from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006 are now available. The dataset used to obtain the results for this report comprises data for all audited patient deaths in UK Intensive Care Units (ICUs) over the period 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006, as recorded on the National Transplant Database (NTxD). It is based on PDA forms received and validated by UK Transplant on or before 20 July 2006. This report summarises the main findings of the PDA over the 36-month period. 1.2 UK Transplant were still receiving completed PDA forms for the period from January to March 2006 at the time of analysis and so the results summarised in this report are subject to change. 2 DEFINITIONS 2.1 The majority of this report refers to potential heartbeating (HB) donors, defined as patients for whom death was diagnosed following brain stem tests and who had no absolute medical contraindications to HB solid organ donation. 2.2 Section 9 refers to potential non-heartbeating (NHB) donors, defined as patients for whom NHB donation was possible and active treatment was withdrawn. 3 BREAKDOWN OF AUDITED DEATHS IN ICUs 3.1 In the 36-month period from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006 there were a total of 69,826 audited patient deaths in UK ICUs. A detailed breakdown from the number of ...