Brain death diagnoses and evaluation of the number of potential organ donors in Québec hospitals

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 716-721

  Cloutier, Réal ^a,b   Baran, Dana ^c,d   Morin, Jean E ^a,c   Dandavino, Raymond ^e   Marleau, Denis ^f   Naud, Alain ^g   Gagnon, Robert ^a   Billard, Marc ^a  

^a Quebec College of Physicians   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Québec Transplant   (Canada)

^e MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^g LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FAMILY ATTITUDE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 33747584113     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03021631     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Québec Transplant, statistics. Available from URL; http://www.Quebec-transplant.qc.ca/public.htm.
2. Organización Nacional de Trasplantes. Evolution of the donation and transplantation activity in Spain (Spanish). Available from URL; http://donacion.organos.ua.es/ont/.
3. Balk RA. Étude sur les donneurs d'organes au Québec. Soumis au Conseil de la santé et des services sociaux de la région de Montréal et au ministère de la Santé et des services sociaux (French). May 9, 1991: 68.
4. Premier Harris' Advisory Board on organ and tissue donation. Organ and tissue donation in Ontario: a plan for change and action: report. May, 2000: 91.
5. Holt AW, Hodgeman GK, Vedig AE, Heard PE. Organ donor index: a benchmark for comparing hospital organ donor rates. Med J Aust 1999; 170: 479-81.
6. Baxter D, The Urban Futures Institute. Beyond comparison: Canada's organ donation rates in an international context. Vancouver, The Urban Futures Institute Report 51, 2001: 40.
7. Collège des médecins du Québec. Rapport du Comité de transplantation sur les donneurs potentiels d'organes dans les hôpitaux du Québec en 2000 - Potential Organ Donors in Québec Hospitals - Year 2000. 2003, Available from URL; http://www.cmq.org/DocumentLibrary/UploadedContents/CmsDocuments/ transplantationEng.pdf.
8. Canadian Neurocritical Care Group. Guidelines for the diagnosis of brain death. Can J Neurol Sci 1999; 26: 64-6.
9. Ministry of Health and Social Services, Québec. Maintenance et exploitation des données pour l'étude de la clientèle hospitalière - MED-ECHO (French). Special request of data for year 2000.
10. Sternbach GL. The Glasgow Coma Scale. J Emerg Med 2000; 19: 67-71.
11. Sheehy E, Conrad SL, Brigham LE, et al. Estimating the number of potential organ donors in the United States. N Engl J Med 2003; 349: 667-74.
12. Christiansen CL, Gortmaker SL, Williams JM, et al. A method for estimating solid organ donor potential by organ procurement region. Am J Public Health 1998; 88: 1645-50.