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Episode 251: Organ Donation with Drs. Vail and Goyal

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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How to Take Care of a Brain Dead Organ Donor

There's really some unique aspects to taking care of a brain dead organ donor. Your goals are really physiologic homeostasis as opposed to managing pain, discomfort, and sedation. Some places actually will not even have a vaporizer on their anesthetic machine. And then the most unique thing is that at the end of the surgery when your servicers are no longer required, you leave the operating room without the patient.

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