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Identificação e notificação de doadores de órgão e tecidos em terapia intesiva [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina.
Silva, Juliany Nascimento
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Strategies for Success among OPOs: A Study of Three Organ Procurement Organizations

open access: yes, 1997
Productivity among organ procurement organizations varies widely in the US, and the pressure to determine critical success factors increases as the organ pool shrinks and managed care expands.
Dean F Kappel   +2 more
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Attitudes of Iranian students about organ donation: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2019
Background Organ donation is a life-saving process for patients suffering from an advanced organ failure. A disparity between donated organs and required organs for transplantation is one of the major problems in Iran.
Parisa Parsa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stress and organs and tissues procurement for transplantion: the experience of nurses - a dissertation abstract

open access: yesOnline Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2006
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to know and compare the stressors and the health condition of the nurses whose job is in the organ and tissue procurement transplantation. Seventeen nurses comprised the sample and they were from three Organs and Tissues Procurement Organizations (OPO), a governmental organization, in São Paulo ...
Aparecida de Jesus Guarino   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Competition for Altruism: Bone and Organ Procurement in the United States

open access: yes, 1992
There is a chronic, indeed growing, shortage of donors of human tissue in the United States. During the last three years, while the number of organ donations obtained in the nation has remained constant, the demand for organ transplantation in the last ...
Prottas, Jeffrey M.
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Death in the Eyes of the Beholder

open access: yesInternational Journal of Organ Transplantation Medicine, 2010
The US Uniform Determination of Death Act provides two alternatives for determining death—the circulatorycriteria and the neurological criteria—yet history and the public’s current understanding of death in the US may mean that only brain death criteria ...
S. Fry-Revere, B. Bastani
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Organ Procurement Organization

open access: yes, 1990
Lisa Cooper was named the new director of the Organ Procurement Organization of North Carolina Baptist Hospital in 1990. Part of Lisa's job was to educate North Carolinians about the need for organ and tissue donations.

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Absence of significant dissent should be sufficient for deceased donor organ procurement in New Zealand.

open access: yes, 2009
OBJECTIVE: New Zealand's organ donation rates are among the lowest in the OECD. In a bid to increase organ availability, the New Zealand Human Tissue Act 2008 introduces new consent arrangements for deceased donor organ procurement. This article assesses
Douglas, Thomas   +6 more
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Disclosure of Information to Organ, Tissue and Eye Procurement Organizations. Final Rule

open access: yes, 2008
This document adopts, with changes, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) interim final rule that implemented provisions of the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 concerning disclosure of information to organ, tissue ...

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Factors Influencing Organ Placement Efforts in Donors with Brain Tumors

open access: yes, 1996
A 3-year retrospective review of brain tumor cases was performed to determine factors that influence organ procurement in light of the increase in references in transplant literature to the hazards of transplanting organs from donors with brain tumors ...
Robin R Vidovich   +2 more
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