PART 1 Expanding the donor pool and evaluation of the possible organ donor
Ethics of organ donation
Policies for boosting donor enlistment in the North Italy transplant program macro-area
Preoperative evaluation and arrangements for multi-organ donation: general principles and contra-indications
PART 2 Principles of brain death diagnosis and optimal management for organ retrieval
Brain death diagnosis
Spinal reflexes and movements in brain death donors
Management of metabolic and hemodynamic derangements in heart beating donors
Non-heart-beating donors
Multiple organ retrieval: general principles, organ preservation, and new strategies
PART 3 Surgical technique for thoracic organ procurement
Thoracic and mediastinal inspection and heart procurement
Lung and heart-lung procurement
PART 4 Surgical technique for abdominal organ procurement
Detailed abdominal organ inspection and early surgical steps for abdominal organ procurement
Whole liver procurement
Split liver: surgical technique for adult-paediatric and for two adult recipients
Small bowel and multivisceral procurement
Pancreas Procurement
Kidney procurement
Vascular Homograft Procurement
Transplantation bench surgery of the abdominal organs
PART 5 Surgical technique for liver and kidney living donor
Right liver lobe hemi-hepatecomy for living donor liver transplantation
Pure laparoscopic left lateral and full-left hepatectomy including the middle hepatic vein in living donors
Total laparoscopic right hepatecomy for living donors
Laparoscopic and robot-assisted nephrectomy. .