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 …

Purpose The shortage of organs for transplantation is an important medical and societal
problem because transplantation is often the best therapeutic option for end-stage organ …

Objective: Neurogenic pulmonary edema is an underrecognized and underdiagnosed form
of pulmonary compromise that complicates acute neurologic illness and is not explained by …

Delayed graft function (DGF) remains a major barrier to improved outcomes after kidney
transplantation. High‐risk transplant recipients can be identified, but no definitive prediction …

Heart and lung procurements are multiphased processes often accompanied by an array of
complex logistics. Approaches to donor evaluation and management, organ procurement …

meyer k., bjørk it & eide h.(2012) Intensive care nurses' perceptions of their professional
competence in the organ donor process. Journal of Advanced Nursing68 (1), 104–115 …

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 …

Organ donors are sources of physiologically healthy organs and tissues for life-saving
transplantation, and have been recently used for human immunology studies which are …

Introduction Circulatory failure during brain death organ donor resuscitation is a problem
that compromises recovery of organs. Combined administration of steroid, thyroxine and …

In this review, we present an overview of the current knowledge of renal injury induced by
pathophysiological effects of brain death and its relevance for renal transplant outcome. The …