When Time is Limited: Exploring Strategies for Expedited Organ Donation Cases
Tuesday, April 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm• EST
Rapid or expedited organ donation cases present unique clinical and operational challenges that require early identification potential expedited cases, coordinated internal processes, and effective external collaboration with donor hospitals and transplant centers, all while maintaining safety, ethical integrity, and quality standards. This session will provide organ donation and transplantation professionals with insight into highly functional processes used by other organ procurement organizations to safely maximize the gift of donation under the pressure of time or stability constraints
Identify early clinical, operational, and situational triggers that indicate a potential donor case may require rapid or expedited pathways
Apply internal operational strategies that support parallel processing, timely escalation, and efficient decision-making in rapid cases
Implement effective external communication practices to collaborate with hospital teams, transplant centers, and recovery partners during accelerated timelines
Describe key safety, ethical, and quality assurance guardrails necessary to preserve standards of care and regulatory compliance in expedited processes
Donation Advancement Series Faculty, Speaker
Sherry Quire
RN, MBA, BSN
Director, Organ Services
Indiana Donor Network
Speaker
Heather Osipowicz
MSBS, BA, CTBS
Director of Donation Development
Nevada Donor Network
Speaker
Nathan Fine
BSN, RN, CPTC, CCTC, CTBS
Manager, Organ Utilization
Donor Network of Arizona
Donation Advancement Series Faculty, Moderator
Jade Barnes
MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Southwest Transplant Alliance
Members of the donation and transplantation community serving diverse populations to include administrators, coordinators, physicians, nurses, surgeons, managers, quality improvement specialists, social workers, and other donation and transplantation center professionals and their colleagues.
Trinity Medical, a Strata Critical Medical Company, has a singular focus of reducing the organ shortage by providing a comprehensive solution to recover every organ possible for transplant through dedicated logistics, transportation, organ recovery and placement services.
