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|  | Donor Management Education On Thursday, November 29, 2008, LifeShare of the Carolinas, along with the Transplant Center at Carolinas Medical Center co-sponsored a one-day mini-symposium on the Critical Care Management of the Organ Donor. The purpose of the course was to highlight the importance of providing meticulous critical care support to potential and actual organ donors as early as possible in the course of their hospitalizations, in order to maximize not only the potential for organ donation, but also to maximize the function of every potentially transplantable organ. This approach, in turns leads to a maximization of organs transplanted, and to a reduction in the waiting time for the nearly 100,000 people currently awaiting organ transplants in the United States. The faculty for the course included Ken E. Wood, D.O., Professor of Medicine, and Director of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison WI., and Thomas A. Nakagawa, M.D., Director, Pediatric Critical Care, Brenner Children's Hospital, North Carolina Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. Attached here are the actual PowerPoint presentations given by Drs. Wood and Nakagawa. The course outline and agenda are attached below: General Outline for the Organ Donor Management Course
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