Management of the brain-dead, heart-beating potential donor

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 243-246

  Cohen, Jonathan ^a   Chernov, Karina ^a   Ben Shimon, Ora ^a   Singer, Pierre ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain dead; Donor; Hypothalamic hypophyseal axis; Organ transplant

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALDOSTERONE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCIUM ION; CATECHOLAMINE; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DESMOPRESSIN; DESMOPRESSIN ACETATE; DOPAMINE; ELECTROLYTE; ENDONUCLEASE; FUROSEMIDE; HETASTARCH; HYDROCORTISONE; INOTROPIC AGENT; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN RADICAL; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; PROTEINASE; RENIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DEATH; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIURESIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EYE PROTECTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BEAT; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INSULIN HYPOGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG EDEMA; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYURIA; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE INJURY; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE;

BRAIN DEATH; ELECTROLYTES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0036282285     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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