Identifying potential heart donors among newborns undergoing circulatory determination of death

Background Infants younger than 1 year old have the highest heart transplant wait-list mortality. Transplantation from donors after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) is an innovative new option for these patients. We examined the potential for heart donation in neonatal intensive care unit (...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of heart and lung transplantation 2011-04, Vol.30 (4), p.389-394
Hauptverfasser:	Mathur, Mudit, MD, Castleberry, Dana, RN, CPTC, Job, Leela, MD
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Cardiology. Vascular system cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) do not resuscitate (DNR) donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) Female Heart Transplantation Humans Infant, Newborn Life Support Care Living Donors Male Medical sciences Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) organ procurement organization (OPO) pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) Surgery Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Surgery of the heart Waiting Lists withdrawal of life support Withholding Treatment
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