Potential availability of transplantable organs according to factors associated with type of injury event.

Author(s)
Waller, J.A. Haisch, C.E. Skelly, J.M.
Year
Abstract

Study of potential availability of transplantable organs from injury fatalities examined target organ damage or disease, age, duration of survival before circulatory arrest, and universal rejection factors such as sepsis, HIV infection or systemic malignancy. Motor vehicle fatalities yielded the greatest proportion of potentially viable organs.

Request publication

8 + 0 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

Publication

Library number
B 30678 (In: B 30651 S) /84 / IRRD 834924
Source

In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 1- 3, 1990, p.405- 420, 7 ref.

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.