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Live Life. Pass It On.

The Opiate Epidemic and

Organ Donation

November 7, 2018

Sean Keenan MD

Provincial Medical Director,

Donation Services

BC Transplant

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Faculty/Presenter Disclosure

• Faculty: Sean Keenan

• Relationships with financial interests:– Grants/Research Support: none

– Speakers Bureau/Honoraria: none

– Consulting Fees: none

– Patents: none

– Other: Provincial Medical Director, Donation Services, BC

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Plan for today

• Background on Opiate Crisis in North America

• Impact on Donation and Transplantation

– Volume and composition of cases

– NDD Declaration of Death

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Case Presentation

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Case Presentation (case altered to protect identity)

• 20 year old man found unresponsive at 10:30

am, Day 0– Known use of Percocet/Oxycontin

– Last seen 1 hour earlier at 9:30 “snoring”

– PEA

• CPR x 1 hour, Epi x 10

• In ER continued loss of pulse – Epi infusion

• Drug screen– Positive Fentanyl, Cannaboids

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Case Presentation

• After resuscitation

– Profound shock – High doses vasopressors

– Marked acidosis

• 6.80/85/81/9 – lactate 17

– Hypothermic T 30 C

– Hypoglycemic – 1.1

– ARDS secondary to aspiration

– Multiorgan injury

• AST/ALT – 4000/3800

• AKI – Cr 148

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Opiate Crisis

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What makes this a Crisis?

• In US

– 2000-2014 overdose rate doubled

– 2015 further 15% increase

– Drug overdose overtakes firearms, MVC as

number 1 cause of accidental death

– Life expectancy dropped for < 65 years old

Weiner et al. Transplantation 2017;101:678-681

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What is the Opioid Crisis

Canadian Institute for Health Information. Opioid-Related Harms in Canada. Ottawa, ON: CIHI; 2017.

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Illicit Drug Overdose Deaths in BC January 1, 2008 to January 31, 2018

Coroner’s Report

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National View of Number and Rate of Overdose Deaths

Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid

Overdoses. National report: Apparent opioid-related deaths

in Canada (January 2016 to June 2017) Web-based Report.

Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada; 2017.

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Proportion of Opioid Deaths due to FENTANYL

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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

BC Alberta Manitoba Ontario Quebec NovaScotia

2016

2017

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These Opiod overdose deaths are accidental ….

Special Advisory Committee on the Epidemic of Opioid

Overdoses. National report: Apparent opioid-related deaths

in Canada (January 2016 to June 2017) Web-based Report.

Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada; 2017.

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Why has this happened?

• In the US

– Initial rise in prescription of opioids

• 3 DRIVING FORCES

– Moral imperative for physicians to treat pain

and relieve suffering

» Access to pain management is a

fundamental right

– Perceived under-treatment of pain

“oligoanalgesia”

» Focus on adequate pain management,

linked to reimbursement

Weiner et al. Transplantation 2017;101:678-681

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Why has this happened?

• Impact of Pharma marketing

– OxyContin

• $200 million in 2001

• 10 fold increase by 2002Weiner et al. Transplantation 2017

Dowell et al. JAMA 2017

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Opioid Crisis

• Tracking of increased opiate prescriptions noted

• Out of proportion to documented amount of pain

– Increased scrutiny

» CDC guidelines

» Prescription monitoring

» More stringent laws on prescribing

Weiner et al. Transplantation 2017;101:678-681

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What next?

• Opioid prescriptions fall

– 2015 16.6 million fewer than 2014

• Concern now is lack of access leading to

increased use of illicit opiates

– Heroin

– Fentanyl and others

Dowell et al. JAMA 2017

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US data

Dowell et al. JAMA 2017

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Illicit Drug Overdose Deaths in BC January 1, 2008 to January 31, 2018

Coroner’s Report

BC Data – Coroner’s Office

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Overdose impact on Organ Donation

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Impact of Overdose on Organ Donation

• Goldberg et al. Am J of Transplantation 2016

– Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

(OPTN)

– 2003-2014 … 2.2% to 7.3% of total donors

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2003 2007

20102014

Increasing number of overdose organ donors

Goldberg et al. Am J of Transplantation 2016

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Durand et al.

Data from Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients

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1.3%

13.7%

Mehra et al.

Proportion of Organ Donors following Overdose

United States vs Eurotransplant

<1% all years for Eurotransplant

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2017 BC Overdose Deaths and Donors

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20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Series1

Series2

Deaths

Donors

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Number of Organ Donors with positive Toxicology

(presumed overdose)

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10

20

30

40

50

60

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

OD donors

OD donors

2017

46 Overdose

25 positive Fentanyl

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BC increase in Deceased Donors 2013-2017

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40

60

80

100

120

140

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Overdose

Other

2017

38%

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Southern Alberta … with permission Andreas Kramer

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10

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25

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35

40

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

OD

None OD

2017

37%

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TGLN data … with permission Andrew Healey

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50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

2014 2015 2016 2017

OD opiate

OD

Non OD

2017

8% / 12.7%

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Durand et al.

Overdose Deaths

Trauma Deaths

Medical Deaths

Infection Risk Deaths (IRDs)

Change in the Donor pool

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Hepatitis C

• In US

– Resurgence in Hepatitis C related to increased IVDU

in younger addicts … avg age donor 12 years

overdose deaths Hep C Donors

Gonzales et al. Hepatology 2018;67(4)1600-1608

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Durand et al.

Overdose Deaths

Trauma Deaths

Medical Deaths

Increase in Hepatitis C positive organ donors

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Utilization Rates Hepatitis C positive kidneys & livers

Li et al. Diseases 2018, 6, 62; doi:10.3390

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Hepatitis C positive into Hepatitis C negative

Gonzales et al. Hepatology 2018;67(4)1600-1608

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Recipient Outcomes are very good …

Durand et al.

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Impact on Organ Donation

• Increased volume of missed opportunities?

Work load

• Inability to do proper MRR

follow up of missed cases

• “Donor fatigue”

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BCKA

Neurological Determination of Death

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That afternoon …

• Shock – PEA x further 3 times

• Profound hypoxemia

– O2sats in 70% range for several hours

– Unresponsive to PEEP, recruitment attempts,

NO

• ECMO – on VV at 17:30

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Patient transfer

• Patient moved to regional ECMO centre and

more stable

– Arrived early evening Day 0

– On Propofol overnight – dc 07:00 Day 1

– Weaned off vasopressors by Day 2

– AKI resolved by Day 2

– LFTs normalizing

– ECMO – decannulated Day 3 15:50

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Neurological status

• On presentation

– Pupils fixed, dilated, no brainstem reflexes, no

response to painful stimuli

• After resuscitation

– Pupils no longer dilated or fixed, spontaneous resp

noted

• Further re-arrest x 3, profound hypoxemia, on ECMO

– Pupils fixed, no brainstem reflexes, no response to

painful stimuli throughout remainder of stay

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Neurostatus

• CT on Day 0 – diffuse cerebral edema

• CT on Day 2 – diffuse edema with evolving

changes of hypodensities within basal ganglia

and white matter

– Compatible with severe anoxic brain injury

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End of Life Discussions

• Very guarded prognosis from beginning

– Parents very interested in donation

• Day 4 post presentation

– 3 days without any sedation

• Propofol off 76 hrs

• Last Versed/Fentanyl 89 hrs

– On Fentanyl at 50 mic/hr x 2 hrs

– Midazolam at 10 mg/hr x 1 hr, 40 mins

• 22 hours off ECMO

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Brain Death Assessment

• 13:30 Day 4

– No brainstem reflexes

– No response to painful stimuli

– No spontaneous resp on Apnea test

• 16 minutes

• PaCO2 40 to 74, pH in expected range

• Pronounced dead

• BC Transplant contacted and NDD management put in

motion

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Next 24 hours

• Noted difficulty with recruitment maneuvers

• Question whether some spontaneous breathes

• With MRP present placed on T-piece and

occasional breathes noted @ ~ 08:30 Day 5

• Nuclear Med Brain Scan Day 5

– Flow to brain noted

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Next 24 hours

• Discussion with family

– MRP and 2nd colleague both of opinion patient has had a severe

anoxic brain injury and no hope of recovery

– Family do not wish life support to be continued

– Agree to DCD

• Day 5, extubated at 20:08 –

– > 108 hrs off Propofol, 120 hours since Versed, Fentanyl and ~

129 hours post-event

– No resp noted

– Asystole at 20:15

– To OR for recovery at 20:21

• 2 kidneys, liver recovered.

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Neurological Determination of Death of Overdose

• Challenge

– Uncertainty around what and how much taken

– Difficult to know when clearance sufficient

• Clinical assessment perhaps more to rule out

brain death

• Strongly consider ancillary testing

– Unclear how long to wait

– Don’t want to wait long

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Summary

• Opiate Crisis continues

– organ donors

• Canadian study of regional impact

– Increase in high risk / Hep C

– Stress on resources

– Need to focus on MRR

– Challenge of NDD in OD setting

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Thank you!

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The Opiate Epidemic and Organ Donation

1. Opiate epidemic is a real crisis

increasing number of deaths

decrease in life expectancy

no solution as yet

2. Opiate epidemic and organ donation

Increase in volume of donors

Change in donors

- more “increased” risk donors

- increase in Hep C organs available

- potential underuse of these organs

Declaration of Brain Death a challenge

- use of ancillary testing suggested

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NDD versus DCD Organs Utilized

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Kidney Liver Lung Heart

NDD

DCD

2017 OD donors

37 NDD

9 DCD (19.6%)

Non-OD donors

32% DCD

87 29 23 17

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Durand et al.

Transplant from Donors dying of Overdose

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