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Table 1 Characteristics of the 32 WoWt patients eligible to organ donation based on medical criteria for graft selection

From: Eligibility of patients withheld or withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment to organ donation after circulatory arrest death: epidemiological feasibility study in a French Intensive Care Unit

Sex

Age(yr)

Clinical settings

SAPS II

SOFA

Organ(s)theoretically eligible to donation

F**

76

Stroke

54

8

Kidney & liver

F**

90

End-stage respiratory disease

64

2

Kidney

M**

65

End-stage respiratory disease

27

14

Kidney

M

43

Post-resuscitation coma

61

4

Kidney

M

55

Post-resuscitation coma

65

7

Kidney & liver

F

73

Post-resuscitation coma

96

13

Liver

F

83

Post-resuscitation coma

62

7

Kidney

F

64

Post-resuscitation coma

68

7

Kidney

F

52

Post-resuscitation coma

61

8

Kidney, liver & lung

M

92

Post-resuscitation coma

62

8

Liver

M

73

Post-resuscitation coma

81

7

Liver

M

66

Post-resuscitation coma

59

12

Liver

M

56

Post-resuscitation coma

79

9

Liver

M

55

Post-resuscitation coma

79

7

Kidney

M

62

Post-resuscitation coma

78

10

Kidney & liver

M

82

Post-resuscitation coma

81

7

Kidney & liver

M

46

Post-resuscitation coma

71

7

Kidney & liver

M

54

Post-resuscitation coma

51

7

Kidney & liver

M

80

Post-resuscitation coma

56

8

Kidney & liver

M

79

Post-resuscitation coma

83

11

Kidney & liver

M

62

Post-resuscitation coma

50

5

Kidney & liver

F

93

End-stage respiratory disease

48

9

Liver

F

82

End-stage respiratory disease

70

3

Liver

M

84

End-stage respiratory disease

92

13

Liver

M

82

End-stage respiratory disease

82

5

Liver

M

78

End-stage respiratory disease

36

2

Kidney

M

88

End-stage respiratory disease

63

6

Kidney

M

89

End-stage respiratory disease

50

8

Kidney & liver

M

63

End-stage respiratory disease

84

4

Kidney & liver

F

80

Cerebrovascular accident

56

6

Kidney & liver

M

48

Cerebrovascular accident

69

11

Kidney

M

58

Encephalitis

67

3

Kidney & lung

  1. The first five patients were withdrawn from life support (i.e., inotrope/vasoactive drugs and mechanical ventilation). The first three patients died within 120 minutes from life support withdrawal (**). All other patients underwent either withholding or progressive withdrawal of curative therapies. SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.