Imminent brain death: Point of departure for potential heart-beating organ donor recognition

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1488-1494

  De Groot, Yorick J ^a   Jansen, Nichon E ^b   Bakker, Jan ^a   Kuiper, Michael A ^c   Aerdts, Stan ^d   Maas, Andrew I R ^e   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^f   Van Leiden, Hendrik A ^b   Hoitsma, Andries J ^h   Kremer, Berry ^g   Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^d ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain death; Critical care organisation; Emergency medicine; Neurotrauma; Stroke; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; BREATHING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMATOSE PATIENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROBABILITY;

BRAIN DEATH; CRITICAL CARE; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 77955918706     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1848-y     Document Type: Article

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