Erschienen in:
04.03.2024 | Editorial
Intensive care admission aiming at organ donation. Pro
verfasst von:
Alicia Pérez-Blanco, Alex Manara
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2024
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Excerpt
Intensive Care to facilitate Organ Donation (ICOD) is the initiation or continuation of intensive care measures to allow incorporation of organ donation into a patient’s end-of-life care plan when active treatment is deemed futile by the multidisciplinary team. The majority will have a devastating brain injury (DBI), most commonly intracranial hemorrhage, hypoxic brain injury or traumatic brain injury, and death by neurological criteria (DNC) has not occurred but is anticipated within a short time frame, allowing donation after brain death (DBD). If brain death does not occur, donation after circulatory death (DCD) remains a possibility that should be explored. ICOD is defined by the objectives of the process and not by the interventions used to achieve them. The aim is to maintain physiological stability and organ function with the same standards of care used in other intensive care unit (ICU) patients [
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