Guidance

• Guidance for Adult Heart Exception Requests (Status 2 Cardiogenic Shock Candidates) (PDF - 448 KB) (2/2021) Effective 2/09/2021
• Guidance for Pediatric Heart Exception Requests (PDF - 188 KB) Effective 2/2021
• Review board guidance for HCM/RCM exception requests (PDF - 775 KB) Effective 10/18/2018
• Review board guidance for adult CHD exception requests (PDF - 192 KB) (12/2017)
• Lung review board guidance (PDF - 908 KB) Effective 3/2023
• Guidance for Conducting the Six-Minute Walk Test for Lung Allocation (PDF - 380 KB) (09/2024)

• Increase non A1 and non A1B kidneys for type B candidates (PDF - 316 KB) 
  (12/2017)
• Kidney donor profile index (KDPI) guide for clinicians

Liver review board guidance

• Recognizing seasonal and geographically endemic infections in living donors (PDF - 389 KB) (11/2014)

• Guidance addressing blood type determination (6/2020)
• ABO sub-typing of blood-type A and B organ donors (PDF - 501 KB) (6/2018)
• Identifying risk factors for West Nile Virus in living donors (6/2013)
• Recognizing seasonal and geographically endemic infections in living donors (PDF - 389 KB) (11/2014)

Guidance on requested deceased donor information (PDF - 196 KB)

• Effective practices in broader distribution (PDF - 726 KB) (6/2019)
• Pediatric transition and transfer guidance (PDF - 399 KB) (12/2018)
• Donor and recipient information sharing (1/2011)
• Patient information letter