Centralization of Major Trauma Influences Liver Availability for Transplantation in Northern Italy: Lesson Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic.
Michele AltomareAndrea ChiericiFrancesco VirdisAndrea SpotaStefano Piero Bernardo CioffiShir Sara BekhorLuca Del PreteElisa ReitanoMarco SacchiFederico AmbrogiOsvaldo ChiaraStefania CimbanassiPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
The high level of care guaranteed by first-level trauma centers could reduce the loss of organs suitable for donation, maintaining the good outcomes of transplanted ones, even in case of multiple organ injuries. The pandemic period underlined that the centralization of major trauma impairs the liver allocation between transplant centers.