Editorial: Organ donors after circulatory determination of death: Not necessarily dead, and it does not necessarily matter

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1011-1012

  Halpern, Scott D ^a   Truog, Robert D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac death; Circulatory death; Dead donor rule; Ethics; Organ donation; Restoration of spontaneous circulation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; DONOR; ETHICS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; LEGAL ASPECT; NOTE; TRANSPLANTATION;

BRAIN DEATH; DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 77249147375     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc1228     Document Type: Editorial

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