Increase the Donor Pool: Transportation of a Patient with Fatal Head Injury Supported with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages E87-E88

  Ke, Hung Yen ^a   Lin, Chih Yuan ^a   Tsai, Yi Ting ^a   Lee, Chung Yi ^a   Hong, Guo Ching ^a   Lee, Chih Hsien ^a   Tsai, Chien Sung ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; BRAIN DEATH; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 77949432451     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817c96b1     Document Type: Article

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