Is organ donation from brain dead donors reaching an inescapable and desirable Nadir?

Transplantation

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1177-1180

  Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a   De Groot, Yorick J ^a   Bakker, Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain death; Organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CADAVER DONOR; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LIVING DONOR; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DEATH; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 79958280114     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182180567     Document Type: Article

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