The shortage of available donor hearts continues to limit cardiac transplantation. For this
reason, strict criteria have limited the number of patients placed on the US waiting list to≈ …

Heart transplantation represents an established procedure in end‐stage heart failure
patients and results in satisfying long‐term results. However, this surgical therapy is …

This document was developed through the collaborative efforts of the Society of Critical Care
Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Association of Organ …

The rationale for an arginine vasopressin (argipressin) infusion was put forward after it was
discovered that patients in shock states might have an endogenous arginine vasopressin …

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 …

Over the past two decades, the demand for donor organs continues to outpace the number
of organs available for transplantation. Parallel with this has been a change in the …

Lung transplantation has had increasing success and has become the mainstay of therapy
for selected patients with end-stage lung and pulmonary vascular diseases. Over the past 10 …

Background. The autonomic storm accompanying brain death leads to neurogenic
pulmonary edema and triggers development of systemic and pulmonary inflammatory …

Children who suffer cardiac arrest have a poor prognosis. Based on laboratory animal
studies and clinical data in adults, vasopressin is an exciting new vasopressor treatment …

Objective To contribute to updating the recommendations for brain-dead potential organ
donor management. Method A group of 27 experts, including intensivists, transplant …