End of life and Organ Donation SDL

Alfred ICU Guidelines – available via PROMPT

• Care of the Dying Patient
• ICU Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment Guideline
• Donation After Circulatory Death
• Donation After Brain Death
• Organ and Tissue donation Overview

Other information (particularly useful for CICM trainees)

• ANZICS Statement on Death and Organ Donation – 4.1 (2021)
• INTENSIVE
  • Breaking Bad (News) by David Anderson (SMACC Chicago, 2015)
  • Talking at the Death by Steve Philpot (smaccGOLD, 2014)
  • What is possible?, What is reasonable?, What is best? (Panel discussion at smaccGOLD, featuring Steve Philpot from The Alfred ICU)
  • Australian Organ Donation Registry (Steve Philpot speaking at a VIN meeting)

LITFL CCC on Brain Death and Organ Donation

• • Brain Death
  • Brain Death Hot Case
  • Contraindications to Solid Organ Donation
  • Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD)
  • Management of the organ donation patient
  • Observations compatible and incompatible with Brain Death
  • Tissue donation
• LITFL CCC on End of Life Care
  • Breaking bad news to relatives
  • End-of-life-care family meeting
  • Palliative care
  • Patients and families that want “everything” done

See the Deranged Physiology Fellowship exam question bank for relevant past questions on this topic.