Organ donation after cardiac death: Are we willing to abandon the dead-donor rule? [1]

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 507-

  Rady, Mohamed Y ^a   Verheijde, Joseph L ^a   McGregor, Joan ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; ETHICS; HEART DEATH; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; COGNITION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; PATIENT CARE; DEATH; DONOR; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

DEATH; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 34548661023     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000282851.31064.6B     Document Type: Letter

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