Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?
Abstract
The National Health Service Blood and Transplant Cardiothoracic Advisory Group, in line with the principles of priority to the sickest and equal access to opportunities to benefit from transplantation, revised the UK Lung Allocation Scheme (UKLAS) from a geography-based to a clinical urgency-based scheme. The primary aim was to prioritise the sickest registered lung transplant candidates, providing access to the national donor lung pool, irrespective of geographical zones. Two criteria-based urgent tiers were adopted in the 2017 UKLAS: (1) the super-urgent lung allocation scheme (SULAS) for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support and (2) the urgent lung allocation scheme (ULAS) for patients with deterioration in disease-specific physiological parameters.
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Date
2023-08-21
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Article
Subject
Respiratory medicine, Surgery, Cardiology
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Citation
Lim HS, Lease EDD. Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success? Thorax. 2023 Aug 21:thorax-2023-220643. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220643. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37604692.
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Thorax
DOI
10.1136/thorax-2023-220643
PMID
37604692
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
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https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2023/08/20/thorax-2023-220643