Current Strategies in Donor Selection and Management

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-151

  Botha, Phil ^a   Rostron, Anthony J ^a   Fisher, Andrew J ^a   Dark, John H ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

donor management; donor selection; lung transplantation; tissue donors

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGIPRESSIN; CYTOKINE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; LIOTHYRONINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NORADRENALIN; TERBUTALINE; VASOPRESSIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRONCHOSCOPY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EX VIVO STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAM STAINING; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESUSCITATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TEAMWORK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 49049113082     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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