Extracorporeal life support and multiorgan donation in a severe polytrauma patient: A case report

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.02.054
• Publication Date: 2015-03-04T10:34:01Z
• Authors: Paolo Balsorano; Marco Ciapetti; Giovanni Cianchi; Manuela Bonizzoli; Maria Luisa Migli...; Maria Cristina Fe...; Andrea Franci; Adriano Peris
• Keywords: Life support; Extracorporeal; Polytrauma; Multiorgan failure; Organ procurement; Organ dysfunction

Organ availability represents a key factor in transplants due to an almost universal shortage of deceased donors.We present the case 41-year-old patients with severe polytrauma, where extracorporeal life support (ECLS) allowed brain death (BD) declaration and multiorgan retrieval transplantation.Organ procurement is utmost importance for transplant procedures. The presented could rise ethical doubts as ECLS be viewed tool organ preservation instead patient support. Nonetheless, it obvious how necessary condition preservation.Besides it' role non heart beating donors, emerging adjunctive dead donors management when standard treatment fails, potentially allowing substantial increase availability.