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.
Table of contents
Principles of Brain Death Diagnosis Marwan S. Abouljoud and Marlon F. Levy
Approaching the Family Jerome Menendez, Tammie S. Peterson and Alison B. Smith
Physiologic Consequences of Brain Death Dimitri Novitzky
Assessing Suitability of the Cadaver Donor Giuliano Testa and Goran B. Klintmalm
Organ Preservation James H. Southard
Optimal Management for Abdominal Organ Donation Allan M. Roza
Optimal Thoracic Organ Donor Management Dan M. Meyer, Michael A. Wait, Michael E. Jessenand W. Steves Ring
Surgical Technique for Multiple Organ Recovery Osman Abbasoglu and Marlon F. Levy
Surgical Technique for Thoracic Organ Recovery Michael A. Wait, Dan M. Meyer, Michael E. Jessenand W. Steves Ring
The Role of the Recovery Services Coordinator Cindy Morphew-Magie and Alison B. Smith
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