Organ donation in the surgical ICU: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document

To cite: Seshadri A, Cuschieri J, Kaups KL, et al. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2023;8:e001107. 1Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2Surgery at ZSFG, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3Department of Surgery, UCSF Fresno, Fresno, California, USA 4General Surgery, Stanford University, STANFORD, California, USA 5Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA 6Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 7Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA 8Surgery, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, USA 9Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 10Surgery, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 11unaffiliated, unaffiliated, Annandale, Virginia, USA

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