(484) Donor Characteristic Between Donor Circulatory Death and Donor Brain Death

Diagnosis of brain death and donor management.

Despite a widespread acceptance of organ transplant the world over, there is still a lack of conceptual clarity about brain death in severely injured cases. The use of terminology “brain death instead of death creates confusion in the mind of few people that it is only the brain and not the patient that is dead. Health professionals have personal concepts of death that vary widely. In one of th...

Brain death, cardiac death, and the dead donor rule.

Donor Age in Liver Transplantation: Donation after Circulatory Death.

protocol and continues at this stage. Finally, weeks 7 to 8 constitute complete mobilization of the upper extremity, with the goal of reaching full tension without pain or a feeling of stretching. Remaining limitations in soft tissue and joint mobility should be addressed. Therapeutic exercises include continued prolonged holds of postural muscles and plank exercises maintaining scapular neutra...

Organ donation after circulatory death: the forgotten donor?

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can be performed on neurologically intact donors who do not fulfill neurologic or brain death criteria before circulatory arrest. This commentary focuses on the most controversial donor-related issues anticipated from mandatory implementation of DCD for imminent or cardiac death in hospitals across the USA. We conducted a nonstructured review of selected p...

Resuscitating heart transplantation: the donation after circulatory determined death donor.

Despite advances in mechanical support, heart transplantation still remains the gold standard treatment for end-stage drugresistant heart failure. It provides both excellent long-term survival and a near-normal quality of life. Unfortunately, as the number of patients eligible for heart transplantation continues to rise, the number of suitable donors after brain death (DBD) continues to fall. I...