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- Title
Medical Management of Brain-Dead Organ Donors.
- Authors
Anwar, A. S. M. Tanim; Jae-myeong Lee
- Abstract
With improving healthcare services, the demand for organ transplants has been increasing daily worldwide. Deceased organ donors serve as a good alternative option to meet this demand. The first step in this process is identifying potential organ donors. Specifically, braindead patients require aggressive and intensive care from the declaration of brain death until organ retrieval. Currently, there are no specific protocols in place for this, and there are notable variations in the management strategies implemented across different transplant centers. Some transplant centers follow their own treatment protocols, whereas other countries, such as Bangladesh, do not have any protocols for potential organ donor care. In this review, we discuss how to identify brain-dead donors and describe the physiological changes that occur following brain death. We then summarize the management of brain-dead organ donors and, on the basis of a review of the literature, we propose recommendations for a treatment protocol to be developed in the future.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; ORGAN donors; BRAIN death; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; MEDICAL protocols; CRITICAL care medicine; PROCUREMENT of organs, tissues, etc.
- Publication
Acute & Critical Care, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
2586-6052
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4266/acc.2019.00430