Non-heart-beating organ donation - Solution or a step too far?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 431-433

  Gardiner, Dale ^a   Riley, B ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CANNULATION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; EXTUBATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART ARREST; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATING ROOM; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PERFUSION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; RESUSCITATION; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN DEATH; DONOR; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TRANSPLANTATION;

BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 34249939006     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05093.x     Document Type: Editorial

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