. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 20.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2007 Mar 9;293(1):L52–L59. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00256.2006

Table 1.

Donor clinical demographic data, procurement times, and time to warming

Mean age (±SD)	40±15 yr
Female	55%
Ethnic/racial minority	55%
Cause of death (number/total)
Motor vehicle accident/head trauma	7/20
Intracranial hemorrhage	10/20
Gun shot wound to head	2/20
Anoxic brain injury	1/20
Clinical concern for lung injury^*	19/20
Time from death to procurement (±SD)	38±14h
Time from procurement to experiment	18±11 h
Time from 4°C to 36°C with perfusion	52±19 min

Including hypoxemia, pneumonia by microbiological findings, radiographic infiltrates, history of aspiration, pulmonary contusion, and pulmonary edema.