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Management of the neurologically deceased organ donor: A Canadian clinical practice guideline

Ian M. Ball, Laura Hornby, Bram Rochwerg, Matthew J. Weiss, Clay Gillrie, Michaël Chassé, Frederick D’Aragon, Maureen O. Meade, Karim Soliman, Aadil Ali, Samantha Arora, John Basmaji, J. Gordon Boyd, Bernard Cantin, Prosanto Chaudhury, Marcelo Cypel, Darren Freed, Anne Julie Frenette, Pam Hruska, Constantine J. Karvellas, Sean Keenan, Andreas Kramer, Demetrios James Kutsogiannis, Dale Lien, Patrick Luke, Meagan Mahoney, Jeffrey M. Singh, Lindsay C. Wilson, Alissa Wright, Jeffrey Zaltzman and Sam D. Shemie
CMAJ April 06, 2020 192 (14) E361-E369; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.190631
Ian M. Ball
Departments of Medicine (Ball), Internal Medicine (Basmaji) and Surgery (Luke), Western University, London, Ont.; Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute (Hornby); Deceased Donation (Hornby, Shemie, Wilson), Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Division of Critical Care) and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (Rochwerg, Meade), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculté de médecine (Weiss), Université Laval; Transplant Quebec (Weiss), Québec, Que.; Canadian Blood Services (Gillrie), Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Medicine and School of Public Health (Chassé), University of Montreal, Montréal, Que.; Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (D’Aragon), University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Que.; Critical Care (Soliman), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Institute of Medical Sciences (Ali), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Arora), Thunder Bay, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Neurology) and Critical Care, Centre for Neuroscience Studies (Boyd), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Department of Medicine (Cantin), Université Laval, Québec, Que.; Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology (Cantin), McGill University, Montréal, Que.; Departments of Surgery (Cypel) and Medicine (Singh), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Division of Cardiac Surgery (Freed), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Faculty of Pharmacy (Frenette), University of Montreal, Montréal, Que.; Alberta Health Services (Hruska), Calgary, Alta.; Department of Critical Care Medicine (Karvellas), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; BC Transplant (Keenan), Vancouver, BC; Division of Critical Care (Keenan), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Kramer), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Kutsogiannis), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; Department of Medicine (Lien), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.; London Health Sciences Centre (Luke), London, Ont.; Department of Pediatrics (Mahoney), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; Division of Infectious Diseases (Wright), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Division of Nephrology (Zaltzman), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Pediatrics (Shemie), McGill University, Montréal, Que.
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    Management of the neurologically deceased organ donor: A Canadian clinical practice guideline
    Ian M. Ball, Laura Hornby, Bram Rochwerg, Matthew J. Weiss, Clay Gillrie, Michaël Chassé, Frederick D’Aragon, Maureen O. Meade, Karim Soliman, Aadil Ali, Samantha Arora, John Basmaji, J. Gordon Boyd, Bernard Cantin, Prosanto Chaudhury, Marcelo Cypel, Darren Freed, Anne Julie Frenette, Pam Hruska, Constantine J. Karvellas, Sean Keenan, Andreas Kramer, Demetrios James Kutsogiannis, Dale Lien, Patrick Luke, Meagan Mahoney, Jeffrey M. Singh, Lindsay C. Wilson, Alissa Wright, Jeffrey Zaltzman, Sam D. Shemie
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    Ian M. Ball, Laura Hornby, Bram Rochwerg, Matthew J. Weiss, Clay Gillrie, Michaël Chassé, Frederick D’Aragon, Maureen O. Meade, Karim Soliman, Aadil Ali, Samantha Arora, John Basmaji, J. Gordon Boyd, Bernard Cantin, Prosanto Chaudhury, Marcelo Cypel, Darren Freed, Anne Julie Frenette, Pam Hruska, Constantine J. Karvellas, Sean Keenan, Andreas Kramer, Demetrios James Kutsogiannis, Dale Lien, Patrick Luke, Meagan Mahoney, Jeffrey M. Singh, Lindsay C. Wilson, Alissa Wright, Jeffrey Zaltzman, Sam D. Shemie
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