Episode 68: DCD lung procurement in the UK

On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors invite first author Luke Williams , a cardiothoracic surgery trainee at Royal Papworth Hospital, NHS Blood and Transplant Clinical Research Fellow, and a PhD student at Cambridge University in the UK. Luke discusses his paper, " The United Kingdom's experience of controlled donation after circulatory death direct procurement of lungs with concomitant abdominal normothermic regional perfusion with an analysis of short-term outcomes ." The discussion explores: Requirements, regulations, and practices in the UK around DCD procurement and A-NRP How survival rates differ and what they might imply about primary graft dysfunction in DCD versus DBD Further work planned in the area in the UK and throughout Europe For the latest studies from JHLT , visit , or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at . Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at for a free subscription, or

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Episode 68: DCD lung procurement in the UK is an episode from JHLT: The Podcast by Jessica Burke.

This episode is 12:55 long.

This episode was published on Aug 20, 2025.

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