• COIIN Learning Congress to share key lessons
  Wednesday, July 25, 2018
  Hospital participants will gather at a Learning Congress in Dallas August 7-8.
  

• Recall notice affects IV solutions
  Monday, July 23, 2018
  ICU Medical Inc. has issued a voluntary recall for four specified lots of intravenous sodium chloride solutions and one specified lot of intravenous dextrose solution due to the potential for flexible container leaks.
  

• Call for nominations: 2019-2020 OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors
  Wednesday, June 20, 2018
  You may nominate yourself or a colleague for a board position by submitting a biography form.
  

• OPTN/UNOS Board adopts principles of geographic organ distribution
  Sunday, June 10, 2018
  Lung distribution, member review process, informed consent requirements also addressed
  

• OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors releases Indiana Donor Network and Gulf Coast Medical Center from probation
  Tuesday, May 1, 2018
  At a teleconference May 2, 2018, the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors restored full member privileges for Indiana Donor Network and Gulf Coast Medical Center.
  

• New booklet advises parents of pediatric transplant patients
  Tuesday, April 24, 2018
  A new resource booklet, “What Every Parent Needs to Know,” is available for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents who need or receive an organ transplant.
  

• OPTN/UNOS Board members named
  Wednesday, March 7, 2018
  Members of the national organ donation and transplantation community have elected 25 members to the OPTN/UNOS board of directors, including a new president, vice-president/president-elect, vice president for patient and donor affairs and secretary.
  

• Notice addresses organ preservation solution
  Sunday, March 4, 2018
  Bridge to Life Ltd. and Waters Medical Systems have issued a field correction for specified lots of Belzer UW Cold Storage Solution and IGL Cold Storage Solution in 2-liter bags.
  

• OPTN/UNOS summit to address OPO, transplant center, system metrics
  Wednesday, February 28, 2018
  The OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors is launching a new effort to study and develop metrics that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and transplant centers can use for improvement.
  

• Histocompatibility General Supervisor Key Personnel Requirement
  Wednesday, February 28, 2018
  The requirements for notification of changes to key personnel and submission of a key personnel change application in OPTN Bylaws, Appendix C.5 Changes in Key Laboratory Personnel will apply to General Supervisors.
  

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