Research Studies

The Physical Changes that Occur during the Dying Process after the Life Support Treatment has Stopped (DePPaRT)

Start Date
01/04/2018
End Date
01/09/2019
Co-ordinated by
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
Local PI
Dr Dan Harvey
Lead Research Practitioner
Cecilia Peters

We are the only site in the UK running this study.  We want to find out at what point the heart stops after the withdrawal of life support, We hope this will aid our organ donation process. Another important purpose is to try to create a list of characteristics that will help us identify patients who will be able to donate their organs successfully.