Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death in the Tuscany region: evolving paradigms and potentials. An 8-year experience

According to our 8-year experience, the uDCD proved to be an add-on activity, giving the opportunity to all OHCA patients without survival options to save lives by organ donation. The uDCD only lung program is a feasible chance to organ donate for OHCA patients with no survival possibility in peripheral hospital. The uDCD program, despite its complexity, seems to have potentials ranging to organizational (uDCD only lung program, mobile machine perfusion) to clinical issues (optimizing the donor-recipient match).