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From: Eligibility of patients withheld or withdrawn from life-sustaining treatment to organ donation after circulatory arrest death: epidemiological feasibility study in a French Intensive Care Unit

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Organ harvesting under Maastricht I, II, and III settings. The Maastricht classification [5] distinguishes four categories of circulatory arrest death (CAD): unforeseeable irreversible circulatory arrest without (category I) or with (category II) immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempted by trained providers (uncontrolled CAD, right side of the panel), foreseeable circulatory arrest occurring after a decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WoWt) (category III or controlled CAD, left side of the panel), circulatory arrest occurring after brain death (category IV, not displayed on the panel).

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