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. 2022 Jun 22:35:10549.
doi: 10.3389/ti.2022.10549. eCollection 2022.

Transferring an ICU Patient at the End of His Life for the Purpose of Organ Donation: Could It Be Considered?

Matthieu Le Dorze  1   2   3 , Bénédicte Gaillard Le Roux  4   5 , Gérard Audibert  1   6 , Régis Quéré  4   7 , Laurent Muller  1   8 , Sylvain Lavoué  4   9 , Jean-Christophe Venhard  10 , Pierre-François Perrigault  1   11 , Olivier Lesieur  4   12
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Transferring an ICU Patient at the End of His Life for the Purpose of Organ Donation: Could It Be Considered?

Matthieu Le Dorze et al. Transpl Int. .
No abstract available

Keywords: controlled donation after circulatory death; end-of-life care; intensive care units; organ donation; withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies.

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Conflict of interest statement

MD, GA, and LM are member of the Steering Committee of the French cDCD Program. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Formalized steps for the transfer of an ICU patient at the end of his/her life for the purpose of organ donation. cDCD, controlled donation after circulatory death; ICU, intensive care units; WLST, withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments; OD, organ donation; OPO, organ procurement organization. Icons made by Monkik, Those Icons, Freepik, kosonicon, Blak1ta, kliwir art, Puckung from www.flaticon.com.
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