A case of successful organ donation after extremely prolonged manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a buried hypothermia victim of avalanche

Submitted: 8 June 2019
Accepted: 22 September 2019
Published: 17 October 2019
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We report a case of a 41-year-old man, victim of accidental avalanche burial, who donated his organs for transplantation after prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

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Varutti, R., Trillò, G., Di Silvestre, A., Peressutti, R., Bassi, F., & Latronico, N. (2019). A case of successful organ donation after extremely prolonged manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a buried hypothermia victim of avalanche. Emergency Care Journal, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2019.8338