Table 1 Topics covered, related questions for each topic, and response rate per question

 Criteria for BDD

When do you declare a patient brain dead?

 Brain death and withdrawal of LSM

Must the patient, who is not suitable for organ donation, be declared brain dead before withdrawing life-sustaining measures?

 Donation after circulatory death

Would you consider organ donation after circulatory arrest in a patient in whom mechanical ventilation will be withdrawn, but who is not brain dead?

 Ventricular drain removal and organ donation

If the decision is made to withdraw life-sustaining measures, in a patient with high intracranial pressure, but who is not brain dead, would you remove the ventricular drain (for CSF drainage), but continue other life-sustaining measures in the hope that the patient will become brain dead and thereby becomes a suitable candidate for organ donation?

 Declaration of death and hands-off time in donors and nondonors

After withdrawal of mechanical ventilation and after circulatory arrest, when exactly do you declare the patient dead in case of a circulatory death organ donor?

After withdrawal of mechanical ventilation and after circulatory arrest, after how many minutes circulatory arrest do you declare the patient dead in cases not suitable as organ donor?