Previously, only patients with severe primary brain damage, for example a major cerebral haemorrhage, which has caused a total cerebral infarction have been able to donate their organs.

- We are now introducing DCD (donation after circulatory arrest), a complementary donation process that means that more people can have the opportunity to donate their organs after death, says Eva Ahlgren Andersson, regional donation doctor and responsible for donation activities in the Southeast Healthcare region in a comment on the region's site.

First out in the Southeast healthcare region

This means that patients who are dying and where life-sustaining treatment is not meaningful now have the opportunity to donate organs in the donation register or to their relatives.

First out with the new method in the Southeastern healthcare region are Vrinnevis Hospital in Norrköping and the University Hospital in Linköping.

- We are happy that we in the whole of Östergötland have had the opportunity to introduce the new method.

We expect that everyone can see this as something positive, that when death is still inevitable, now more people have the opportunity to help their fellow human beings after death, says Anna Bergström, chief physician at the anesthesia and intensive care clinic at Vrinnevis Hospital.

SVT Nyheter has previously reported that the government's proposal for several legislative changes concerning organ donations to increase the number of organ donations.

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The government wants to see more organ donations Photo: SVT