Open AccessA case of successful organ donation after extremely prolonged manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a buried hypothermia victim of avalanche
Author(s) -
Rosanna Varutti,
Giulio Trillò,
Adriana Di Silvestre,
Roberto Peressutti,
Flavio Bassi,
Nicola Latronico
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2019.8338
Subject(s) - medicine , extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , hypothermia , accidental hypothermia , resuscitation , organ donation , anesthesia , transplantation , surgery
We report a case of a 41-year-old man, victim of accidental avalanche burial, who donated his organs for transplantation after prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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