Management of the brain dead organ donor

J Wong, HL Tan, JPS Goh - Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2017 - Elsevier
With improved healthcare, more patients survive to develop chronic diseases and end organ
failure. Solid organ transplants are increasingly performed to replace failing or failed organs …

[HTML][HTML] Medical management of brain-dead organ donors

ASMT Anwar, J Lee - Acute and Critical Care, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With improving healthcare services, the demand for organ transplants has been increasing
daily worldwide. Deceased organ donors serve as a good alternative option to meet this …

Care of the brain-dead organ donor

K Linos, J Fraser, WD Freeman, C Foot - Current Anaesthesia & Critical …, 2007 - Elsevier
Brain death commonly occurs after a devastating central nervous system (CNS) injury from
head trauma or stroke. Severe brain injury and brain death create a variety of extra-cerebral …

[PDF][PDF] Organ donor problems and their management.

V Shah, G Bhosale - Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2006 - researchgate.net
In recent years, transplantation has assumed an important role in the treatment of patients
with end-stage organ failure. With the passage of Transplantation of Human Organ Act by …

Donor treatment after pronouncement of brain death: a neglected intensive care problem

RMH Wijnen, CJ Van Der Linden - Transplant international, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
The need for cadaveric organs for transplantation is increasing. To decrease the shortage of
organs, identification of potential donors and conditioning of these donors must improve. We …

Aggressive management of multiorgan donor

VR Shah - Transplantation proceedings, 2008 - Elsevier
Transplantation of vital human organs is a lifesaving therapy for patients with end-stage
organ failure who are medically fit to undergo the surgical procedure. However, deceased …

Organ donation and management of the potential organ donor

EM Thomson, DW McKeown - Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
Solid organs for transplantation are a scarce and valuable resource. For many patients
transplant offers the hope of disease cure but unfortunately demand far exceeds supply and …

Critical care management of potential organ donors: our current standard

C Dictus, B Vienenkoetter… - Clinical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Caring for a brain dead potential organ donor requires a shift in critical care from the
extensive treatment of increased intracranial pressure towards strategies to maintain donor …

Critical care of the potential organ donor

AJ Dare, AS Bartlett, JF Fraser - Current neurology and neuroscience …, 2012 - Springer
Organ transplantation represents one of the great success stories of 20th century medicine.
However, its continued success is greatly limited by the shortage of donor organs. This has …

Management of the heartbeating brain-dead organ donor

DW McKeown, RS Bonser… - British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The main factor limiting organ donation is the availability of suitable donors and organs.
Currently, most transplants follow multiple organ retrieval from heartbeating brain-dead …