Heart & lung
Policy toolkits
Allocation calculator
Lung allocation system (LAS) calculator
A guide to calculating the lung allocation score
Monitoring reports
- Three-month heart monitoring report: Heart policy to address patient safety following device recall (PDF 11/2022)
- Three-year heart monitoring report: Proposal to modify the adult heart allocation system (PDF 9/2022)
- Two-year heart monitoring report: Eliminate the use of DSAs in thoracic allocation (PDF 8/2022)
- One-year heart monitoring report: Eliminate the use of DSAs in thoracic allocation (PDF 7/2020)
- Two-year heart monitoring report: Proposal to modify the adult heart allocation system (PDF 3/2021)
- One-year heart monitoring report: Proposal to modify the adult heart allocation system (PDF 3/2020)
Policy & guidance
Heart
- OPTN policy 6: allocation of hearts and heart-lungs (PDF - 2.5 M; 2/2022 )
- Evaluation plan guidance for policy 6 (PDF - 91 K; 7/2021)
- Adult heart allocation toolkit
- National Heart Review Board (NHRB) for Pediatrics FAQ (PDF - 900KB; 7/2021)
- Guidance for Adult Heart Exception Requests (Status 2 Cardiogenic Shock Candidates) (PDF - 448KB; 2/2021)
- Guidance for Pediatric Heart Exception Requests (PDF - 620 KB; 2/2021)
- Heart Allocation Variances (None active as of 3/1/2020) (PDF 378 K)
- Review board guidance for HCM/RCM exception requests (PDF - 674 K; 10/2018) Effective 10/18/2018
- Review board guidance for adult CHD exception requests (PDF - 180 K; 12/2017)
Lung
- Lung allocation system (LAS) refinements and refine lung data fields FAQ (PDF - 169 K; 4/2022)
- OPTN policy 10: allocation of lungs (PDF - 2.5 M; 2/2022)
- Evaluation plan guidance for policy 10 (PDF - 91 K; 7/2021)