The resources listed below help transplant professionals, critical care staff, procurement coordinators, and others provide effective donor management. This section also includes technical articles published in leading medical journals.

The Critical Pathway for the Organ Donor(R) *
The Critical Pathway is a "care map" of an organ donor's treatment plan designed to help critical care staff and procurement coordinators understand, collaborate, and follow the steps required for effective donor management.

Hormonal Resuscitation of the Organ Donor *
Originally published in the journal Transplantation, this article discusses how advances in pharmacological donor management have the potential to increase transplantable organs.

Donor-Related Malignancies *
This paper, published in Transplantation Reviews in October 2002, discusses reports of donor-related malignancies in organ transplantation. It also discusses strategies for prevention of donor-related malignancies, as well as treatment options for recipients with donor-related tumors.

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