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The Alliance Conversation Series
Use of NMP in DCD Liver Transplant: Balancing Utility and Costs
Presented On:July 18, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm• EST

The liver transplant community is continually challenged by a lack of donor livers to adequately meet the needs of transplant candidates. Recently, there has been a rapid increase in the number of liver donors with suboptimal donor criteria, particularly DCD donors. These “hard to place livers “present a challenge to both OPOs and transplant centers for different reasons. The advent of liver perfusion represents a potential opportunity to increase utilization of “hard to place livers” but limitations of these technologies must also be acknowledged.

  • Understand the current landscape of deceased organ donation and suboptimal donor organ potential.
  • Understand why some organs are difficult to place from a recipient transplant center perspective.
  • Describe clinical utility of liver perfusion.
  • Discuss cost management approaches for liver perfusion.
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2023 NCIF-NRP Planning Committee, 2025 NCF-Perfusion & Preservation Devices Planning Committee, 2026 NCF Speaker, Board, Event Speaker, Speaker
Amit Mathur
MD, MS, FACS
Surgical Director, Liver Transplant Program Director, Enterprise Transplant Quality and Compliance
Mayo Clinic Transplant Center - Arizona
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Conversation Series Workgroup, Moderator
Candy Wells
BSN, MM
LifeCenter Northwest

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.

Continuing Education Credits

Continuing Education credits are no longer available for this learning opportunity.

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