TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Just the facts: Organ donation in the emergency department: When you can't save one, save eight
JO  - Canadian journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Hancock, Jennifer
A1  - Huang, Simon
A1  - Zavalkoff, Samara
SP  - 155
EP  - 158
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
N2  - A 16-year-old female presents to a community emergency room following a suicide attempt by hanging. Prehospital, on arrival of paramedics, the patient was in a pulseless electrical activity rhythm. Paramedics provided advanced cardiac life support for 20 minutes before they obtained return of spontaneous circulation. In the emergency department, she had another 25-minute cardiac arrest with ultimate return of spontaneous circulation. She is now hemodynamically stable on Levophed 0.2 µg/kg/min. Her neurological exam shows pupils to be 3 mm and fixed bilaterally, absent cough and gag, and no response to central or peripheral pain. She occasionally triggers 2-3 spontaneous breaths per minute above the set rate on the ventilator. Her CT head scan shows severe anoxic changes and cerebral edema.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1481-8035
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2019.456
ID  - ref1
ER  -