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.
By:
Goran B. Klintmalm, Marlon F. Levy Imprint: Landes Bioscience Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Weight: 290g ISBN:9781570594984 ISBN 10: 1570594988 Pages: 186 Publication Date:01 January 1999 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
History of solid organ donation; principle of brain death/evolution; approaching the family; physiologic consequence of brain death; assessing suitability of the cadaver donor; organ preservation; optimal management for abdominal organ donation; optimal management for thoracic organ donation; surgical technique/multiple organ recovery; role of organ recovery coordinator; ethical issues in organ donation.