Actively delaying death to increase organ donation

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7846, 2012, Pages

  Watkinson, Peter ^a   McKechnie, Stuart ^a   Wilkinson, Dominic ^b   Salmon, Jonathan ^a   Young, Duncan ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; DEATH; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM; ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

DEATH; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84857875739     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1179     Document Type: Editorial

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