The path to paediatric donation after circulatory determination of death guidelines.

Recently, Canada became the first country to publish paediatric specific guidelines for the practice of donation after circulatory death (pDCD). These guidelines, endorsed by the Canadian Paediatric Society, were created in response to the fact that pDCD in Canada was largely undeveloped even in tertiary care centres, and no national guidelines addressed the practice in children. This article explains what pDCD is and how these recommendations were developed.