Alicia Pérez-Blanco, María Acevedo, María Padilla, Aroa Gómez, Luis Zapata, María Barber, Adolfo Martínez, Verónica Calleja, María C Rivero, Esperanza Fernández, Julio Velasco, Eva M Flores, Brígida Quindós, Sergio T Rodríguez, Beatriz Virgós, Juan C Robles, Agustín C Nebra, José Moya, Josep Trenado, Nieves García, Ana Vallejo, Eugenio Herrero, Álvaro García, Maria L Rodríguez, Fernando García, Ramón Lara, Lucas Lage, Francisco J Gil, Francisco J Guerrero, Ángela Meilán, Nayade Del Prado, Cristina Fernández, Elisabeth Coll, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil
Intensive Care to facilitate Organ Donation (ICOD) consists of the initiation or continuation of intensive care measures in patients with a devastating brain injury (DBI) in whom curative treatment is deemed futile and death by neurological criteria (DNC) is foreseen, to incorporate organ donation into their end-of-life plans. In this study we evaluate the outcomes of patients subject to ICOD and identify radiological and clinical factors associated with progression to DNC. In this first prospective multicenter study we tested by multivariate regression the association of clinical and radiological severity features with progression to DNC...
2024: Transplant International