What's new in organ donation: better care of the dead for the living

A Al-Khafaji, R Murugan, JA Kellum - Intensive care medicine, 2013 - Springer
Despite multiple efforts to increase organ donation, there remains a critical shortage of
organ donors [1]. Furthermore, the number of organs procured per donor has remained …

Deceased Organ Donor Characteristics and Organ Utilization in Israel, 2004-2013.

J Cohen, Y Bistritz, T Ashkenazi - The Israel Medical Association …, 2015 - europepmc.org
Background The number of patients awaiting organ transplantation continues to exceed the
number of available organs. Objectives To document changes in the demographic …

The effect of a protocol of aggressive donor management: implications for the national organ donor shortage

A Salim, M Martin, C Brown, P Rhee… - Journal of Trauma …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Background: The disparity between the number of people awaiting organ transplantation
and the number of organs available has become a public health crisis. As many as 25% of …

Review of organ donation in Hong Kong: 1996-2009

YF Tong, J Koo, B Cheng - Hong Kong Journal of Nephrology, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A retrospective review of the data entries from the Organ Procurement
System of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority from January 1996 to December 2009, a 14 …

[HTML][HTML] Intravenous levothyroxine for unstable brain-dead heart donors

R Dhar, GF Marklin, WD Klinkenberg… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Hemodynamic instability and myocardial dysfunction are major factors
preventing the transplantation of hearts from organ donors after brain death. Intravenous …

[PDF][PDF] Organ donor management and procurement

E Cantu, DW Zaas - Organ Transplantation, 2011 - umsha.ac.ir
In many patients with end-stage organ dysfunction, solid organ transplantation has emerged
as the treatment of choice; however, the paucity of suitable organ donors has placed severe …

Damage control surgery prior to organ harvesting

N Ahmed, D Cheng-Robles - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
DISCUSSION In the United States today, the organ transplant waiting list oversaw a
dramatic increase of approximately 130% in the past decade alone. 2 Documented numbers …

Increasing organ recovery from level I trauma centers: the in-house coordinator intervention

TJ Shafer, RN Ehrle, KD Davis… - Progress in …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose Daily presence of organ procurement organization staff in level I trauma centers
combined with early family contact and interaction can increase donation rates. Methods A …

The case for a standardised protocol that includes hormone resuscitation for the management of the cadaveric multi-organ donor

A Hing, M Hicks, L Gao, M Wilson, F Mackie… - Critical Care and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Haemodynamic changes: Brain death is accompanied by a series of complex
haemodynamic, neurohormonal and immunological changes. The time course and severity …

[HTML][HTML] A single-center experience with an intensivist-led brain-dead donor management program

J Park, NR Yang, YJ Lee, KS Hong - Annals of transplantation, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A Single-Center Experience with an Intensivist-Led Brain-Dead Donor Management Program
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