186 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
174 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This handbook is a ready reference guide for organ procurement and preservation. Procurement coordinators, surgeons, residents and other health care professionals involved in organ retrieval will find most questions answered that will arise during their participation with these difficult and complex issues. This handbook will prove an invaluable resource in the transplant unit as well as in the intensive care unit.
1: Principles of Brain Death Diagnosis; 2: Approaching the Family; 3: Physiologic Consequences of Brain Death; 4: Assessing Suitability of the Cadaver Donor; 5: Organ Preservation; 6: Optimal Management for Abdominal Organ Donation; 7: Optimal Thoracic Organ Donor Management; 8: Surgical Technique for Multiple Organ Recovery; 9: Surgical Technique for the Thoracic Organ Recovery; 10: The Role of the Recovery Services Coordinator; 11: Ethical Issues in Organ Donation
Biography
Goran B. Klintmalm
