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 …

Organ transplantation often depends on obtaining functioning organs from a donor who has
recently died. This review presents a structured approach to management of the care of the …

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 …

Because of organ shortage and a constant imbalance between available organs and
candidates for liver transplantation, expanded criteria donors are needed. Experience …

Background. Brain death results in adverse pathophysiologic effects in many cadaveric
donors, resulting in cardiovascular instability and poor organ perfusion. Hormonal …

Background. Brain death results in cardiovascular instability and poor organ perfusion in
many brain-dead donors. Hormonal resuscitation stabilizes certain brain-dead donors and is …

Abstract Experiments in Cape Town in the 1980s demonstrated that acute brain death is
followed by massive catecholamine release resulting in systemic hypertension, acute left …

Brain death itself impairs organ function in the potential donor, thereby limiting the number of
suitable organs for transplantation. In addition, graft survival of kidneys obtained from brain …

Brain death has specific implications for organ donation with the potential for saving several
lives. Awareness on maintenance of the brain dead has increased over the last decade with …

The systemic physiologic changes that occur during and after brain death affect all organs
suitable for transplantation. Major changes occur in the cardiovascular, pulmonary …