It’s happening in Colorado, Wyoming and across the country: DCD donation. Denver Post is situated in the middle of America and in a state that has had some awful transplant cases in the past year. Including a scandal involving these guys. So Denver is really thinking hard about a big increase in DCD:
Organ donations from partially brain-dead patients – a controversial source – jumped tenfold in Colorado and Wyoming last year, the group that coordinates donations said.
This group of donor patients rose to 20 last year from two in 2004. Those 20 donors, each of whom is considered one donation, provided 36 organs – primarily kidneys and livers, according to Sue Dunn, chief operating officer of Donor Alliance, which oversees donations in the two states.