1. Intensive care to facilitate organ donation. ONT-SEMICYUC recommendations
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D. Escudero Augusto, B. de la Calle, J.M. Pérez Villares, José A. De Velasco, A. Pérez Blanco, M.J. Sánchez-Carretero, Belén Estébanez, D. Perojo, F. Martínez Soba, N. Masnou, Elisabeth Coll, D. Uruñuela, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, M.C. Martín Delgado, and Teresa Pont
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High probability ,Mechanical ventilation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Transplantation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030228 respiratory system ,Considered futile ,Donation ,Intensive care ,medicine ,In patient ,Organ donation ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
Intensive care to facilitate organ donation (ICOD) is defined as the initiation or continuation of life-sustaining measures, such as mechanical ventilation, in patients with a devastating brain injury with high probability of evolving to brain death and in whom curative treatment has been completely dismissed and considered futile. ICOD incorporates the option to organ donation allowing a holistic approach to end-of-life care, consistent with the patients wills and values. Should the patient not evolve to brain death, life-supportive treatment must be withdrawal and controlled asystolia donation could be evaluated. ICOD is a legitimate practice, within the ethical and legal regulations that contributes increasing the accessibility of patients to transplantation, promoting health by increasing deceased donation by 24%, and with a mean of 2.3 organs transplanted per donor, and collaborating with the sustainability of health-care system. This ONT-SEMICYUC recommendations provide a guide to facilitate an ICOD harmonized practice in spanish ICUs.
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- 2021
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