'In plain language': Uniform criteria for organ donor recognition

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1492-1494

  Kompanje, Erwin J O ^a   Jansen, Nichon E ^b   De Groot, Yorick J ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CORNEA REFLEX; COUGHING; DONOR SELECTION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OXYGENATION; REFLEX; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

BRAIN DEATH; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84880291931     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2986-9     Document Type: Review

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