trauma-list Digest, Vol 102, Issue 8

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Sorry Ron
This question is now before the ethic committees of several "Colleges". We are being asked to do procedures on patients who are "dead/dying" just to keep the organs alive

In the practices trauma surgeons do daily is to resuscitate GSWs to the head with GCSs < 5.  All of these are organ donors.

At the last AAST after one of the papers there was a show of hands of many who had resuscitated  "dead" who were successful donors 

This needs to be an end point on ER resuscitation as well

>>>> discussions regarding this.
> - Surely you just - we are NOT responsible for saving organs.  We are responsible for saving LIVES - and here there was no LIFE to save, just a corpse who probably had many destroyed organs due either to the initial trauma or to the hypoxia that was in existence well before the arrival of Jenny and her crew.

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