“For the study, Yee and his colleagues analyzed the information from all patients during a
seven-year period from the neurologic intensive care unit at the Mayo Clinic whose life …

Donate an organ and save a life, is probably the duty of everyone. The first successful heart
transplant in India was carried out in the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New …

Donors with brain death represent the major source of organs for transplantation and
contribute to saving millions of lives of patients with organ failure. In the United Kingdom …

DR. STEPHAN A. MAYER:“If you can identify someone who is likely to undergo cardiac
arrest within a hour after the withdrawal of life support, that'sa good potential donor, and …

The need for organ donation has become a growing concern over that last decade as the
gap between organ donors and those awaiting transplant widens. According to UNOS, as of …

article in brief: How should neurologists respond if a patient with a fatal neurologic condition
asks about the prospect of donating their organs? Experts weigh in on answers and how to …

1. List the key points in the organ donation process in which the physician's efforts can
facilitate a successful donation. 2. Explain decoupled request. 3. List the criteria for …

In the 1970s, brain death supplanted cardiopulmonary criteria for determining the death of
potential organ donors, because the perfused and oxygenated organs of ventilated brain …

As of March 2015, there were over 123,000 patients on the OPTN/UNOS waiting list. In
2012, however, only 28,052 organ transplantations were performed from 14,013 donors …

It is not unusual for emergency physicians to quickly identify whether a patient would have
wanted to be resuscitated or intubated in a cardiac arrest situation, but patients' other …