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Pro/con debate: In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death, starting medications and/or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice

Several hospitals have been developing programmes for organ donation after cardiac death. Such programmes offer options for organ donation to patients who do not meet brain-death criteria but wish to donate their organs after withdrawal of life-support. These programmes also increase the available o...

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Autores principales: Phua, Jason, Lim, Tow Keang, Zygun, David A, Doig, Christopher J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17442127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc5711