Donation after Cardiac Death
{"Image DocumentName": "Donation after Cardiac Death", "Image ImageDescription": "In the current practice of organ donation after cardiac death (formerly known as non -heart-beating organ donation), I and others raised the question of whether the organ donor patients were truly dead after only five minutes of asystole. The five-minute rule was accepted by the Instutue of Medicine as the point at which death could be declared and the organs procured. Ours was a biologically valid criticism because, at least in theory, some such patients could be resusucitated after five minutes of asystole and still retain measurable brain function. If that was true, they were not yet dead at that point so their death declaraltion was premature.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}