The rise and rise of donation after cardiac death: A solution to the shortfall in organs for transplantation?

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-4

  Opdam, Helen ^a,b  

^a DonateLife   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION;

DEATH; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84880765081     PISSN: 14412772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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