Identifying the potential organ donor: An audit of hospital deaths

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1390-1397

  Opdam, Helen Ingrid ^a,b   Silvester, William ^a,b  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Victorian Organ Donation Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain death; Medical Records; Organ donors; Organ procurement; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 3242674032     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2185-9     Document Type: Article

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