Research published today in the British Journal of Anaesthesia suggests that organ donation rates in the UK could be increased if the current issues affecting declined consent are improved.

Hearts used in transplants can only be sourced from donors that are brain dead before circulation to their heart has ceased.

Clinicians from a leading UK children's hospital have called for European countries to change the way they tackle the shortage of organ donations from children.

More than half of Sweden's intensive care nurses doubt that a clinical neurological examination can establish that a patient is brain dead.

Taking different measures to preserve the lungs after brain death in potential organ donors nearly doubled the lungs eligible for donation, compared to conventional methods that are typically used.