The Breath of Life: Increasing the Pool of Lung Donors

Affiliations

¹ Division, Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC; and Department of Medicine, Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.

Editorial

Cherylee W J Chang. Crit Care Med. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;48(12):1899-1900.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004677.

¹ Division, Neurocritical Care, Department of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC; and Department of Medicine, Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.

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Comment on

Bacterial Pneumonia in Brain-Dead Patients: Clinical Features and Impact on Lung Suitability for Donation.
Poignant S, Boutrot M, Ehrmann S, Remerand F, Venhard JC, Wolf M, Boulain T, Barbier F. Poignant S, et al. Crit Care Med. 2020 Dec;48(12):1760-1770. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004631. Crit Care Med. 2020. PMID: 33009101

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