• DOI:10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140209.x
Corpus ID: 22260946

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support of donor abdominal organs in non‐heart‐beating donors

@article{Ko2000ExtracorporealMO,
  title={Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support of donor abdominal organs in non‐heart‐beating donors},
  author={W. Ko and Y. S. Chen and P. R. Tsai and P. Lee},
  journal={Clinical Transplantation},
  year={2000},
  volume={14}
}

W. Ko, Y. S. Chen, +1 author P. Lee

Published 2000

Medicine

Clinical Transplantation

Both family consent and legal consent were required for organ/tissue donation from non‐heart‐beating donors (NHBD) in Taiwan. A district attorney had to come to the bedside to confirm the donor's asystole, confirm the family consent, and complete some legal documents before a legal consent was issued for organ donation. The resultant warm ischemic time would be unpredictably long and in fact precluded the organ donation from NHBD in Taiwan. We developed a method of using extracorporeal membrane… CONTINUE READING

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