Management of the heartbeating brain-dead organ donor

DW McKeown, RS Bonser… - British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
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 …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials of thyroid hormone administration to brain dead potential organ donors

PS Macdonald, A Aneman, D Bhonagiri… - Critical care …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To review all published clinical studies of thyroid hormone administration to
brain-dead potential organ donors. Methods: A search of PubMed using multiple search …

The impact of meeting donor management goals on the number of organs transplanted per donor: results from the United Network for Organ Sharing Region 5 …

DJ Malinoski, MS Patel, MC Daly… - Critical care …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Many organ procurement organizations have implemented critical care end points
as donor management goals in efforts to increase organs transplanted per donor after …

Review of randomized clinical trials of donor management and organ preservation in deceased donors: opportunities and issues

GS Dikdan, C Mora-Esteves, B Koneru - Transplantation, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Given the static number of deceased donors, improvements in donor management and
organ preservation to increase the number and quality of organs transplanted per donor are …

The impact of early hormonal therapy in catastrophic brain-injured patients and its effect on organ procurement

L Lam, K Inaba, BC Branco, B Putty… - The American …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of early hormonal therapy on organ
procurement from catastrophic brain-injured patients. All catastrophic brain-injured patients …

Donor hormone and vasopressor therapy: closing the gap in a transplant organ shortage

DS Plurad, S Bricker, A Falor, A Neville… - Journal of Trauma …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use for donors with hemodynamic
instability is common. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of HRT in donors …

[PDF][PDF] Organprotektive Intensivtherapie und Simulatortraining.

JW Rey, T Ott, D Bösebeck, S Welschehold… - Anaesthesist, 2012 - researchgate.net
Hintergrund Die solide Organtransplantation hat sich seit Mitte des vergangenen
Jahrhunderts als ein etabliertes Verfahren zur Behandlung vieler Erkrankungen im …

Organ protective intensive care treatment and simulation-based training

JW Rey, T Ott, D Bösebeck, S Welschehold, PR Galle… - Der Anaesthesist, 2012 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Die Bereitschaft zur Organspende ist in Deutschland nach wie vor
unzureichend. Bei Weitem nicht alle Patienten auf den Wartelisten erhalten rechtzeitig ein …

Early graft failure after heart transplantation: prevention and treatment

K Subramaniam - International Anesthesiology Clinics, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Early cardiac allograft failure in the transplanted heart is an unfortunate event and could
happen due to several reasons. Pulmonary hypertension in the recipient can result in right …

Assessment, monitoring, and management of brain-dead potential organ donors in the USA

D Demetriades, L Lam - The brain-dead organ donor: pathophysiology …, 2012 - Springer
Severe head trauma and nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhages can cause major systemic
dysfunction, which may affect every system of the potential organ donor. Without early and …