Table 3 Practices around circulatory arrest organ donation and ventricular drain removal
From: Brain death and postmortem organ donation: report of a questionnaire from the CENTER-TBI study
Region | ||||||||
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Answer | Sample total (N = 66) | Baltic States (N = 5) | Eastern Europe (N = 6) | Israel (N = 2) | Northern Europe (N = 9) | Southern Europe (N = 12) | United Kingdom (N = 8) | Western Europe (N = 24) |
Would you consider organ donation after circulatory arrest in a patient in whom mechanical ventilation will be withdrawn, but who is not brain dead? | ||||||||
No, this is forbidden in my country | 45 | 80 | 67 | 50 | 67 | 42 | 0 | 42 |
No, although it would be permitted, I would not do this | 15 | 20 | 33 | 0 | 22 | 33 | 0 | 4 |
Yes, sometimes | 20 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 11 | 25 | 13 | 29 |
Yes, always | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 25 |
Sample total (N = 67) | Baltic States (N = 5) | Eastern Europe (N = 6) | Israel (N = 2) | Northern Europe (N = 9) | Southern Europe (N = 12) | United Kingdom (N = 8) | Western Europe (N = 25) | |
If the decision is made to withdraw life-sustaining measures, in a patient with high intracranial pressure, but who is not brain dead, would you remove the ventricular drain (for CSF drainage), but continue other life-sustaining measures in the hope that the patient will become brain dead and then becomes a suitable candidate for organ donation? | ||||||||
No, never | 33 | 80 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 88 | 28 |
Yes, sometimes | 51 | 20 | 50 | 100 | 100 | 50 | 13 | 48 |
Yes, always | 16 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 24 |