PMID- 15035765
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040415
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 0885-0666 (Print)
IS  - 0885-0666 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 4
DP  - 2003 Jul-Aug
TI  - Non-heartbeating organ donation: a review.
PG  - 189-97
AB  - Organ transplantation is one of the groundbreaking achievements in medicine in 
      the 20th century. In the early days of transplantation, organs were obtained from 
      non-heartbeating (NHB) cadavers. With time, better options for organ sources 
      became available (for example, living-related and "brain dead" donors), and the 
      practice of obtaining organs from NHB cadavers fell out of favor. Improvements in 
      the field of transplantation have led to an increased demand for organs. Various 
      strategies have been employed recently to increase the supply, one of them being 
      non-heartbeating organ donation (NHBOD). NHBOD can take place in controlled or 
      uncontrolled circumstances. Recently, national organizations have supported and 
      proposed guidelines for NHBOD and to aid clinicians in identifying potential 
      donors. Outcomes of organs obtained from NHB cadavers are comparable to those 
      obtained from heartbeating donors. The practice of NHBOD is increasing and has 
      proven that it can contribute to increasing organ availability.
FAU - Zawistowski, Christine A
AU  - Zawistowski CA
AD  - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Critical Care 
      Medicine, PA 15213, USA. zawica@ccm.upmc.edu
FAU - DeVita, Michael A
AU  - DeVita MA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - J Intensive Care Med
JT  - Journal of intensive care medicine
JID - 8610344
SB  - IM
MH  - *Brain Death/classification/diagnosis
MH  - Cadaver
MH  - Family/psychology
MH  - Health Services Needs and Demand/ethics/organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Living Donors/ethics/psychology/supply & distribution
MH  - Nurse's Role
MH  - Organ Transplantation/classification/ethics/*methods/standards/statistics & 
      numerical data
MH  - Patient Advocacy/ethics
MH  - Patient Selection/ethics
MH  - Physician's Role
MH  - Practice Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Tissue and Organ Procurement/classification/ethics/*organization & administration
RF  - 55
OID - KIE: 123884
OID - NRCBL: VF 19.5
OTO - KIE
OT  - Death and Euthanasia
OT  - Health Care and Public Health
GN  - KIE: KIE Bib: organ and tissue donation
EDAT- 2004/03/24 05:00
MHDA- 2004/04/16 05:00
CRDT- 2004/03/24 05:00
PHST- 2004/03/24 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/04/16 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/03/24 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0885066603253314 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Intensive Care Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;18(4):189-97. doi: 10.1177/0885066603253314.