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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Authors

  • Rosanna Varutti Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine 2, University Hospital, Brescia; Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
  • Giulio Trillò Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
  • Adriana Di Silvestre Regional Transplant Center, University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
  • Roberto Peressutti Regional Transplant Center, University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
  • Flavio Bassi Department of Intensive Care 2, University Hospital, Udine, Italy.
  • Nicola Latronico Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine 2, University Hospital, Brescia, Italy.

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.


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

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