Donor conversion and organ yield in traumatic brain injury patients: Missed opportunities and missed organs

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1573-1580

  Kemp, Clinton D ^a   Cotton, Bryan A ^a   Johnson, J Chad ^a   Ellzey, Michelle ^c   Pinson, C Wright ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tennessee Donor Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Donation; Donor; Organ yield; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; DATA BASE; DEATH; FAMILY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURY; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; DIRECTED TISSUE DONATION; DONOR SELECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 67650326804     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318068fc2f     Document Type: Article

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