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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Accidental hypothermia
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
• Avalanche burial
• Organ donation