Victory out of Tragedy: Organ Donation

Overview

Journal Trauma Surg Acute Care Open

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2024 Apr 22

PMID 38646028

Authors

Ali Salim

Bryan A Cotton

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Abstract

Major improvements in trauma care during the last decade have improved survival rates in the severely injured. The unintended consequence is the presentation of patients with non-survivable injuries in a time frame in which intervention is considered and often employed due to prognostic uncertainty. In light of this, discerning survivability in these patients remains increasingly problematic. Evidence-based cut-points of futility can guide early decisions for discontinuing aggressive treatment and use of precious resources in severely injured patients arriving in extremis.

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