ICU and You · Superpuzzle No. 46

Organ donation

Fifteen clues across four flavours — must-knows, history, and the odd quirk. Fill it in, then send it straight to me with the button below.

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Across

  • 1National register where every Australian can record a donation decision (initials) (4)
  • 5The kind of ischaemia measured in minutes, at body temperature, critical in DCD (4)
  • 7Antigen system matched between donor and recipient (initials) (3)
  • 9Drug given to the donor to control diabetes insipidus (12)
  • 11Performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, between identical twins; later a Nobel laureate (6)
  • 12___ perfusion: pumping oxygenated fluid through an organ rather than icing it (7)
  • 14Immunosuppressant discovered in a soil fungus that transformed transplantation in the 1980s (12)
  • 15Fluid named for the university of this US state is used for flushing and preserving donor abdominal organs — liver, kidney, pancreas. Home of the Packers (9)

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  • 2The “___ donor rule” — the ethical line that donation must not cause death (4)
  • 3For the pupillary criteria of brain death diagnosis, the pupils need not be dilated, but they must be this (5)
  • 4Surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant, Cape Town, 1967 (7)
  • 6Colour of the DonateLife logo; also the colour of the Sydney Sixers cricket team (7)
  • 8Technique keeping a retrieved organ perfused in transit — “heart in a ___” (3)
  • 10Country leading the world in donation rates, with an opt-out system and a national transplant organisation; also won the Football World Cup (5)
  • 13Mixed ___: coexisting donor and host marrow that can free a recipient from anti-rejection drugs (9)

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