Organ donation and COVID-19: Should precautionary principle still apply?

Affiliations

¹ Organ Donation Coordination, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France. Electronic address: agregoire@ch-annonay.fr.
² CHU de Nîmes, Département Anesthésie et Réanimation, University of Montpellier-Nîmes, Nîmes, France.
³ Neuro-Intensive Care Unit, Fondation Ophtalmologique de Rothschild, Paris, France.

Editorial

Arnaud Gregoire et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;41(4):101120.

doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2022.101120. Epub 2022 Jun 30.

¹ Organ Donation Coordination, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France. Electronic address: agregoire@ch-annonay.fr.
² CHU de Nîmes, Département Anesthésie et Réanimation, University of Montpellier-Nîmes, Nîmes, France.
³ Neuro-Intensive Care Unit, Fondation Ophtalmologique de Rothschild, Paris, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Organ donation; Organ transplantation.

Comment on

Solid organ transplantation from donors with recent or current SARS-CoV-2 infection: A systematic review.
Martinez-Reviejo R, Tejada S, Cipriano A, Karakoc HN, Manuel O, Rello J. Martinez-Reviejo R, et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022 Aug;41(4):101098. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2022.101098. Epub 2022 May 6. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022. PMID: 35533977 Free PMC article.

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