The Impact and Implications of The COVID-19 Pandemic on Organ Procurement Outside of an Epicenter

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been well-documented to have a variable impact on individual communities and health care systems. We describe the experience of a single organ procurement organization (OPO), located in an area without a large cluster of cases during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. A review of community health data describing the impact of COVID-19 nationally and in Oklahoma was conducted. Additionally, a retrospective review of available OPO data from March 2019-May 2020 was performed. While the amount of donor referrals received and organs recovered by the OPO remained stable in the initial months of the pandemic, the observed organs transplanted vs. expected organs transplanted (O:E) decreased to the lowest number in the 15-month period and organs transplanted decreased as well. Fewer organs from Oklahoma donors were accepted for transplant despite staff spending more time allocating organs.

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Hudgins, J. J., Boyer, A. J., Orr, K. D., Hostetler, C. A., Orlowski, J. P., & Squires, R. A. (2021). The Impact and Implications of The COVID-19 Pandemic on Organ Procurement Outside of an Epicenter. Progress in Transplantation, 31(2), 171–173. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211002808

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