Eligibility of patients withheld or withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment to organ donation after circulatory arrest death: Epidemiological feasibility study in a French intensive care unit

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Lesieur, Olivier ^a,b   Mamzer, Marie France ^b   Leloup, Maxime ^a   Gonzalez, Frédéric ^b   Herbland, Alexandre ^a   Hamon, Brigitte ^b   Viallard, Marcel Louis ^b   Hervé, Christian ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Life support care; Medical futility; Organ donation; Tissue and organ harvesting; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DONOR; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVER; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 84891436324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2110-5820-3-36     Document Type: Article

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