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#469 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should organ donation be part of every neonatal end-of-life conversation?

#469 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should organ donation be part of every neonatal end-of-life conversation?1 Oct28 min

Send us Fan Mail In this Journal Club episode, Daphna reviews the first national estimate of potential neonatal organ donors, a Pediatrics cohort study from 23 Australian NICUs, along with its companion commentary. Of 1,760 infants who died in the NICU between 2012 and 2022 at 35 weeks corrected age or later, about one in three met conservative eligibility criteria. Most would have donated after circulatory death, and a smaller group with severe HIE could potentially have donated after neurol...