Cardiac death or circulatory arrest? Facts and values in organ retrieval after diagnosis of death by cardio-circulatory criteria

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1673-1677

  Zamperetti, Nereo ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^b   Ronco, Claudio ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

DEATH; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 72449204611     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1572-7     Document Type: Note

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