Background Hemodynamic instability and myocardial dysfunction are major factors
preventing the transplantation of hearts from organ donors after brain death. Intravenous …

Disruption of water and electrolyte balance is frequently encountered in clinical medicine.
Regulating water metabolism is critically important. Diabetes insipidus (DI) presented with …

Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) remains the main cause of early mortality following heart
transplantation despite several advances in donor preservation techniques and therapeutic …

Some patients who have been diagnosed as “dead by neurologic criteria” continue to exhibit
certain brain functions, most commonly, neuroendocrine functions. This preservation of …

Conceptual frameworks are valuable resources that can be used to guide the planning,
evaluation, and development of health care services. However, there are currently no …

Background Some patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) progress
to death by neurological criteria (DNC). We hypothesized that initial brain imaging …

Over the past few years, the use of non-invasive neuromonitoring in non-brain injured
patients has increased, as a result of the recognition that many of these patients are at risk of …

Organ donation after brain death remains the deceased organ donation pathway of choice.
In the UK, the current identification and referral rate for potential donation after brain death …

Some patients who have been diagnosed as “dead by neurologic criteria” continue to exhibit
certain brain functions, most commonly, neuroendocrine functions. In this chapter, we review …

Mortality remains high for patients on the waiting list for organ transplantation. A marked
imbalance between the number of available organs and recipients that need to be …