Organ Procurement and Preservation

This guide addresses the identification and management of potential donors and the subsequent retrieval and preservation of various organs. Physiological changes that take place in the organ donor and in an organ during preservation are described.

List of contents

1: Principles of Brain Death Diagnosis; 2: Approaching the Family; 3: Physiologic Consequences of Brain Death; 4: Assessing Suitability of the Cadaver Donor; 5: Organ Preservation; 6: Optimal Management for Abdominal Organ Donation; 7: Optimal Thoracic Organ Donor Management; 8: Surgical Technique for Multiple Organ Recovery; 9: Surgical Technique for the Thoracic Organ Recovery; 10: The Role of the Recovery Services Coordinator; 11: Ethical Issues in Organ Donation

About the author

Goran B. Klintmalm

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Goran B. Klintmalm, Klintmalm Goran B., Marlon F. Levy
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781570594984
• ISBN: 978-1-57059-498-4
• No. of pages: 186
• Weight: 290 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Surgery / Transplant, Transplant Surgery