Reanimation: Overcoming objections and obstacles to organ retrieval from non-heart-beating cadaver donors

Medical Humanities

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-11

  Orr, Robert D ^a   Gundry, Steven R ^a   Bailey, Leonard L ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non heart beating cadavers; Organ retrieval; Reanimation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346443692     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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