Open AccessOrgan retrieval and banking in brain dead trauma patients: Our experience at level-1 trauma centre and current views
Author(s) -
Chhavi Sawhney,
Manpreet Kaur,
Sanjeev Lalwani,
Babita Gupta,
Ira Balakrishnan,
Aarti Vij
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.115599
Subject(s) - organ donation , medicine , organ transplantation , brain dead , demographics , population , donation , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , transplantation , family medicine , intensive care medicine , demography , economic growth , environmental health , sociology , economics
Organ retrieval from brain dead patients is getting an increased attention as the waiting list for organ recipients far exceeds the organ donor pool. In our country, despite a large population the number of brain dead donors undergoing organ donation is very less (2% in our study).