The incidence of potential missed organ donors in intensive care units and emergency rooms: A retrospective cohort

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1452-1459

  Kutsogiannis, Demetrios J ^a,c   Asthana, Sonal ^b   Townsend, Derek R ^a   Singh, Gurmeet ^a   Karvellas, Constantine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BGS Global Hospital   (India)

^c ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain death; Collaborative requesting; Donation after circulatory death; Organ donation

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REFLEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880301435     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2952-6     Document Type: Article

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