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Medical Management of Brain-Dead Organ Donors
A.S.M. Tanim Anwar, Jae-myeong Lee
Acute Crit Care. 2019;34(1):14-29.   Published online February 28, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/acc.2019.00430
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With improving healthcare services, the demand for organ transplants has been increasing daily worldwide. Deceased organ donors serve as a good alternative option to meet this demand. The first step in this process is identifying potential organ donors. Specifically, braindead patients require aggressive and intensive care from the declaration of brain death until organ retrieval. Currently, there are no specific protocols in place for this, and there are notable variations in the management strategies implemented across different transplant centers. Some transplant centers follow their own treatment protocols, whereas other countries, such as Bangladesh, do not have any protocols for potential organ donor care. In this review, we discuss how to identify brain-dead donors and describe the physiological changes that occur following brain death. We then summarize the management of brain-dead organ donors and, on the basis of a review of the literature, we propose recommendations for a treatment protocol to be developed in the future.

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Case Reports
Neurology/Cardiology
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for the Support of a Potential Organ Donor with a Fatal Brain Injury before Brain Death Determination
Sung Wook Chang, Sun Han, Jung Ho Ko, Jae-Wook Ryu
Korean J Crit Care Med. 2016;31(2):169-172.   Published online May 31, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2016.31.2.169
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The shortage of available organ donors is a significant problem and various efforts have been made to avoid the loss of organ donors. Among these, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been introduced to help support and manage potential donors. Many traumatic brain injury patients have healthy organs that might be eligible for donation for transplantation. However, the condition of a donor with a fatal brain injury may rapidly deteriorate prior to brain death determination; this frequently results in the loss of eligible donors. Here, we report the use of venoarterial ECMO to support a potential donor with a fatal brain injury before brain death determination, and thereby preserve donor organs. The patient successfully donated his liver and kidneys after brain death determination.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2015.30.3.218
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Cyanide intoxication results in severe metabolic acidosis and catastrophic prognosis with conventional treatment. Indications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) are expanding to poisoning cases. A 50-year-old male patient arrived in the emergency room due to mental change after ingestion of cyanide as a suicide attempt 30 minutes prior. He was comatose, and brain stem reflexes were absent. Initial laboratory analysis demonstrated severe metabolic acidosis with increased lactic acid of 25 mM/L. Shock and acidosis were not corrected despite a large amount of fluid resuscitation with high-dose norepinephrine and continuous renal replacement therapy. We decided to apply ECMO and CRRT to allow time for stabilization of hemodynamic status. After administration of antidote infusion, although the patient had the potential to progress to brain death status, vital signs were improved with correction of acidosis. We considered the evaluation for organ donation. We report a male patient who showed typical cyanide intoxication as lethal metabolic acidosis and cardiac impairment, and the patient recovered after antidote administration during vital organ support through ECMO and CRRT.

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Cardiology
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2014.29.3.194
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We report a case of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support for donor organ preservation in a brain-dead patient following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A 43-year-old male patient was referred to the emergency department after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation. Spontaneous circulation was restored after 8 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. ECMO was implemented because of hemodynamic deterioration. The patient then underwent coronary angiography and was implanted with a drug-eluting stent because of occlusion at the proximal portion of the right coronary artery. After 144 hours, brain death was established, and ECMO support for optimal oxygen delivery was sustained until organ retrieval after consent for donation was received from the family. Liver and kidneys were successfully transplanted to three recipients, respectively.

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Successful Management of Potential Non-Heart-Beating Donor with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2012.27.4.279
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Hemodynamics of a brain-dead donor can change rapidly during management. It frequently leads to loss of the donor or deterioration of organ functions. Various efforts have been made not to lose potential donors. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and non-heart-beating donation (NHBD) are good examples of such efforts. A 47 year-old woman with a history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and atrial fibrillation was diagnosed with cerebral infarction and hemorrhage. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed three times before transfer to our hospital. Her family agreed to organ donation. ECMO was applied due to her unstable vital signs, which made the first declaration of brain death possible. However, considering the deteriorating vital signs and expected cardiac arrest, it was decided to switch to NHBD under the family's consent. All life-support devices including ECMO were turned off in the operation room. After cardiac death was declared, the harvesting of liver and kidneys was performed with perfusion through an ECMO catheter. The liver and kidneys were successfully transplanted to three recipients.

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Original Article
Thyroid Hormonal Changes in Brain Death Donors
Jae Myeong Lee, Young Joo Lee
Korean J Crit Care Med. 2011;26(3):157-161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2011.26.3.157
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BACKGROUND
We analyzed thyroid hormone values in brain death patients to determine the need for thyroid hormone replacement therapy.
METHODS
We analyzed 111 brain death donors (77 males and 34 females, mean age, 41.1 years (range; 8 months -72 years) in Ajou University Hospital from 2000 to 2010.
RESULTS
The mean values of thyroid hormones were T3; 72.5 ng/dl (normal range [NR] 60-181 ng/dl), T4; 5.0 microg/dl (NR 4.5-10.9 microg/dl), free T4 1.0 ng/dl (NR 0.8-1.5 ng/dl), and TSH 1.5 microIU/ml (NR 0.35-5.5 microIU/ml), respectively. However, the values of T4 (correlation coefficient -0.264, p = 0.005), free T4 (correlation coefficient -0.305, p = 0.001) and TSH (correlation -0.206, p = 0.031) significantly decreased based on the increase of interval from the brain death-inducing event to the evaluation time (hereafter, interval). The patients with greater than 8 days of interval (N = 30) showed significantly low thyroid hormone values compared to patients with less than 8 days of interval (N = 81); T3 (70.3 ng/dl vs. 77.0 ng/dl, p = 0.242), T4 (4.7 ng/dl vs. 5.3 ng/dl, p = 0.015), free T4 (0.8 ng/dl vs. 1.2 ng/dl, p = 0.006) and TSH (1.0 microIU/ml vs. 2.0 microIU/ml, p = 0.000), respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
As the intervals from the brain death-inducing events increased, all thyroid hormone values of brain death donors except T3 significantly decreased. Therefore, we recommend that careful consideration should be given to the interval from brain death-inducing event for the evaluation of thyroid hormone status of brain death patients.

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Case Report
Successful Heart Transplantation after Dobutamine, Glucose-insulin-potassium, and Hormone Therapy in a Hemodynamically Unstable Cadaveric Heart Donor: A Case Report
So Yeon Kim, Shin Ok Koh, Young Chul Yoo, Ha Kyoung Kim, Tae Jin Yun, Eun Ji Chang, Sungwon Na
Korean J Crit Care Med. 2010;25(2):89-92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.2.89
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The major limitation to heart transplantation is the shortage of donor organs. In order to increase the cardiac donor pool, it is important to maintain stable hemodynamics and closely monitor cardiac function in cadaveric organ donors or potent donors. Recently, management of a potential cardiac donor pool has focused on aggressive hemodynamic management protocols and dobutamine stress echocardiography. In our case, management with low dose dobutamine, glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK), and hormone therapy reversed heart failure following brain death and the heart was successfully transplanted. We suggest that aggressive hemodynamic management with low-dose dobutamine, GIK, and hormone therapy can result in the recruitment of more cadaveric hearts in marginal conditions.

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Original Article
A Survey of Patients Who Were Admitted for Life-Sustaining Therapy in Nationwide Medical Institutions
Jong Myon Bae, Joo Young Gong, Jae Ran Lee, Dae Seog Heo, Younsuck Koh
Korean J Crit Care Med. 2010;25(1):16-20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.1.16
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BACKGROUND
The study focused on figuring out the present status and distribution of the underlying diseases of Korean terminally ill patients (TIP) who were on life-support care (LSC) by conducting a nationwide health care survey.
METHODS
The authors of this study requested that the 308 nationwide hospitals that operate intensive care units answer a questionnaire that asked about the number of admitted TIPs and their underlying diseases at 12 Am, 22 July, 2009. The proportion of TIPs among all the admitted patients and the percentages of the TIP's underlying diseases were calculated.
RESULTS
In a total of 83.1% of the eligible hospitals responded, the proportion of TIP was 1.6 of 100 admitted patients. Terminal cancer was the leading underlying disease in the TIPs (42.4%). Five % of the patients on LSC were brain dead. More TIPs were admitted in the national/public or university hospitals than in the private or non-university hospitals.
CONCLUSIONS
Futile treatment seems to be administered to the TIPs in Korean hospitals. The quality of terminal care in Korean hospitals should be improved by the application of socially acceptable LSC guidelines. Timely government health plans, including hospice care, to improve the quality of palliative care should be launched and maintained.

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