Brain Death and Management of a Potential Organ Donor in the Intensive Care Unit - Critical
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There is increasing evidence of a sustained state of systemic inflammation after pig-to-
nonhuman primate (NHP) xenotransplantation (that has been termed systemic inflammation …

Background Hormonal therapy to the brain-dead potential organ donor can include thyroid
hormone (triiodothyronine [T 3] or levothyroxine [T 4]), corticosteroids, antidiuretic hormone …

El trasplante de órganos es, en muchos casos, la única opción terapéutica para pacientes
con enfermedades terminales de diversos órganos esenciales, sin embargo, existe un …

Background Donor hearts and lungs are more susceptible to the inflammatory physiologic
changes that occur after brain death. Prior investigations have shown that protocolized …

Background It has been well documented that the level of serum/plasma free
triiodothyronine (fT 3) falls rapidly following brain death or during certain surgical …

Hormonal therapy to the brain-dead organ donor can include thyroid hormone
(triiodothyronine [T 3] or levothyroxine [T 4]), antidiuretic hormone, corticosteroids, or insulin …

Hormonal replacement therapy to brain‐dead potential organ donors remains controversial.
A retrospective study was carried out of hormonal therapy on procurement of organs in 63 …

Michel Accad critiques the currently accepted whole-brain criterion for determining the death
of a human being from a Thomistic metaphysical perspective and, in so doing, raises …

Objectives The continuing shortage of organs from deceased human donors prevents many
patients with end-stage organ failure from receiving an organ transplant …