Donors after cardiac death: Opportunity missed

Transplantation

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 569-570

  Johnson, Scott R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LMOB7 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Donor after cardiac death; Organ donation; Organ procurement organization

Indexed keywords

ASYSTOLE; BRAIN DEATH; DATA BASE; DONATION AFTER HEART DEATH; EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH; HUMANS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25444516812     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000168574.81450.1c     Document Type: Editorial

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