Outcome after admission to ITU following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Are non-survivors suitable for non-heart-beating organ donation?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 434-437

  Gratrix, Andrew P ^a   Pittard, Alison J ^a   Bodenham, Andrew R ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART OUTPUT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORGAN DONOR; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DONOR SELECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROGNOSIS; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DONOR SELECTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 34249941196     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.04981.x     Document Type: Article

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