OPTN News

6/1/23: Are you passionate about organ donation and transplantation? Interested in making an impact? Apply to serve as a volunteer for the OPTN.

5/9/23: Learn about a public dashboard that displays real-time status, historical data, and planned enhancements of the OPTN computer system known as UNet.

4/27/23: Learn about a change to the OPTN transplant label distributor and how members can create a new account to order labels the first time they log in.

4/3/23: Learn about data on living donor long-term outcomes, including additional verified deaths among living donors since 1994.

4/3/23: The OPTN announces that updated median MELD at transplant scores are in effect as of March 30. The national median MPaT score has lowered to 33.

3/20/23: Learn about a voluntary recall by Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) for its CD5 Series of Genesis Reusable Rigid Sterilization Container Systems.

3/20/23: A new policy matches lung transplant candidates with organs from deceased donors. It is the first to use an approach known as continuous distribution.

3/20/23: Access an animated video for transplant candidates and their caregivers that explains how the lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) is calculated.

3/7/23: Read a white paper by the OPTN Ethics Committee on ethical issues in information given to potential transplant candidates to support program selection.

3/3/23: Get updated information on a webinar providing education on the OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications.