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Eligibility of patients withheld or withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment to organ donation after circulatory arrest death: epidemiological feasibility study in a French Intensive Care Unit

BACKGROUND: Transplantation brings sustainably improved quality of life to patients with end-stage organ failure. Persisting shortfall in available organs prompted French authorities and practitioners to focus on organ retrieval in patients withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment and awaiting cardi...

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Autores principales: Lesieur, Olivier, Mamzer, Marie-France, Leloup, Maxime, Gonzalez, Frédéric, Herbland, Alexandre, Hamon, Brigitte, Viallard, Marcel-Louis, Hervé, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24199966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2110-5820-3-36