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Organ donation
Author(s) -
Sarti Armando
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.1999.00390.x
Subject(s) - medicine , organ donation , intensive care unit , citation , donation , pediatrics , transplantation , world wide web , computer science , economics , economic growth
that the ‘front line’ of organ donation is the intensive Transplantation has become an established form of therapy unit. Indeed, while waiting for major treatment for endstage organ diseases in adults and breakthroughs from the research field, such as children (1). Long-term survival with good quality xenotransplantation or the availability of suitable of life can now be achieved even in childhood as a artificial organs, the whole process of organ retrieval result of continuous advances in surgical techniques, should be continuously reviewed; every single step, organ preservation, immunosuppressive therapy and from the detection of possible organ donors, donor specific life-support facilities. Even in newborns heart management, consent request and organ preservation and liver transplantation is feasible and renal to donor anaesthesia and surgical removal, should transplantation has been successful in young infants. be improved in order to reduce the acute organ However, the cadaveric organ supply is severely shortage. Since, due to a variety of reasons, only restricted and many adult and paediatric patients around one-third of potential donors become actual still die whilst awaiting an organ. As the demand donors (2), we can still find considerable scope to for transplantable organs rises, this well-recognized address the limiting factors which are within our discrepancy in the ratio of organ donors to recipients control for improving organ donation rates. is increasing rapidly and the waiting-list time for a