Controlled non-heart-beating organ donation in intensive care

British Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 298-301

  Murphy, Paul G ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN INJURY; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BEAT; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34250833805     PISSN: 17508460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hmed.2007.68.6.23568     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. British Medical Association (2000) Organ Donation in the 21st Century. Time for a consolidated approach. British Medical Association, London
2. Cohen SL, Bewley JS, Ridley S, Goldhill D and Members of The ICS Standards Committee (2003) Guidelines for limitation of treatment for adults requiring intensive care. Intensive Care Society, London (www.ics.ac.uk/icmprof/downloads/LimitTreatGuidelines2003.pdf)
3. Department of Health (2003) Saving lives, valuing donors A transplant framework for England. Department of Health, London
4. DeVita MA (2001) The death watch: certifying death using cardiac criteria. Prog Transpl 11(1): 58-66
5. Ethics Committee, American College of Critical Care Medicine; Society of Critical Care Medicine (2001) Recommendations for nonheartbeating organ donation. A position paper by the Ethics Committee, American College of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine Crit Care Med 29: 1826-31
6. Gardiner D, Riley B (2007) Non-heart-beating organ donation - solution or a step too far. Anaesthesia 62: 431-3
7. General Medical Council (2006) Withholding and Withdrawing Life-prolonging Treatments: Good Practice in Decision-making. General Medical Council, London (http://www.gmc-uk.org/)
8. Hossmann K-A, Kleihues P (1973) Reversibility of ischemic brain damage. Arch Neurol 29: 375-84
9. Losasso TJ, Muzzi DA, Meyer FB, Sharbrough FW (1992) Electro- encephalographic monitoring of cerebral function during asystole and successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Anesth Analg 75: 1021-4
10. Maleck WH, Piper SN, Triem J, Boldt J, Zittel FU (1998) Unexpected return of spontaneous circulation after cessation of resuscitation (Lazarus phenomenon). Resuscitation 39: 125-8
11. Ridley S, Bonner S, Bray K, Falvey S, Mackay J, Manara A (2005) UK guidance for non-heart-beating organ donation. Br J Anaesth 95: 592-5
12. Royal College of Surgeons of England (1999) The Report of the Working Party to Review Organ Transplantation. The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London (http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/rcseng/content/publications/docs/ review_organ_report.html accessed 1 June 2007)
13. UK Transplant (2007) Statistics for the calendar year. UK Transplant, Bristol (http://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/calendar_year_statistics/ calendar_year_statistics.jsp accessed 1 June 2007)
14. US Institute of Medicine (2000) Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Practice and Protocols. National Academy Press, Washington DC: 22-4
15. Weber M, Dindo D, Demartines N, Ambühl P, Clavien P (2002) Kidney transplantation from donors without a heartbeat. N Engl J Med 347: 248-55
16. White SA, Prasad KR (2006) Liver transplantation from non-heart beating donors. Apromising way to increase the supply of organs. BMJ 332: 377
17. Xiao F, Safar P, Radovsky A et al (1995) Mild hypothermia (hth), plus cerebral blood flow promotion (cbf), but not drugs, give complete functional recovery after 11 minutes of cardiac arrest in dogs. Crit Care Med 23(suppl): A179