Hypothesis Levothyroxine sodium therapy should be used in brain-dead potential organ
donors to reverse hemodynamic instability and to prevent cardiovascular collapse, leading
to more available organs for transplantation. Design Prospective, before and after clinical
study. Setting A surgical intensive care unit of an academic county hospital. Patients During
a 12-month period (September 1, 1999, through August 31, 2000), we evaluated 19
hemodynamically unstable patients with traumatic and nontraumatic intracranial lesions …