objective: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous and catheter directed thrombolysis by recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (alteplase) in the patients with non-traumatic acute limb ischemia (ali). methods: this was a randomized clinical trial being performed between 2009 and 2011 in mashhad university of medical sciences. we included those patients who were<75 years, with symp...

OBJECTIVE To define donors' profile of an Organ and Tissue Procurement Center and compare the family consent for tissue donation before and after modification of the Donation Term. METHODS A descriptive, documentary and quantitative study performed in an Organ and Tissue Procurement Center, analyzed 111 feasible donors' charts in the period from March 13 to September 13, 2010 (1st period), an...

Introduction The increase of human tissue clinical use has lately generated a relevant donors demand, which in terms of tissue donation is not limited to brain dead donors, but generalized to cardiac arrest donors (multi-tissue donor) and alive donors. Donated organs and tissues both come from an alive or dead donor, which implies similarities in terms of ethical requirements. However, there ar...

This study explores the effects of tissue requesters' relational, persuasive, and nonverbal communication on families' final donation decisions. One thousand sixteen (N = 1,016) requests for tissue donation were audiotaped and analyzed using the Siminoff Communication Content and Affect Program, a computer application specifically designed to code and assist with the quantitative analysis of co...

TO THE EDITOR: Knowledge of the deceased's wishes and the processes involved in requesting organ donation increases the likelihood of family consenting to donation. 1 Australian research has found that many people who register consent for organ donation do not discuss it with family members. 2 Others discuss their intentions with their family but choose not to register. Since the Australian Org...

Continued progress in organ donation will help enable transplantation to alleviate the increasing incidence of end-stage organ disease. This article discusses the implementation and effect of the federally initiated Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative; it then reviews organ donation data, living and deceased, from 1995 to 2004. It is the first annual report of the Scientific Registry of T...