Background: The cause of brain injury may influence the number of organs that can be
procured and transplanted with donation following neurologic determination of death. We …

Background: Shortfalls in deceased organ donation lead to shortages of solid organs
available for transplantation. We assessed rates of deceased organ donation and compared …

Background: Hospital mortality has decreased over time for critically ill patients with various
forms of brain injury. We hypothesized that the proportion of patients who progress to …

Context: Patients never declared brain dead may represent an additional source of donor
organs. Objective: To determine the number of likely brain dead potential donors who are …

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 …

CMAJ| SEPTEMBER 25, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 38 E1205 after neurologic death and,
at times, with lower-quality transplant outcomes. Reassuringly, the widening availability of …

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 …

Objectives The discrepancy between organ donation rate and the number of patients waiting
transplantation has been a common problem in Turkey. Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) …

Background Driven by disease trends, such as obesity and metabolic syndrome, that are
increasingly prevalent in the general population, we aimed to evaluate the comorbidities …

Many patients with acute devastating brain injury die outside intensive care units and could
go unrecognized as potential organ donors. We conducted a prospective observational …