Reflections on Non-Heartbeating Organ Donation: How 3 Years of Experience Affected the University of Pittsburgh's Ethics Committee's Actions
| Autor: | Michael A. DeVita, Stuart J. Younger, Renéee C. Fox, James V. Snyder |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Gerontology
Brain Death Ethics Committees medicine.medical_specialty Informed Consent Tissue and Organ Procurement Health (social science) business.industry Health Policy Ethics committee Pennsylvania Tissue Donors Life Support Care Issues ethics and legal aspects Legal Guardians Withholding Treatment Life sustaining treatment Family medicine medicine Humans Organ donation Ethics Committees Clinical business |
| Zdroj: | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 5:285-299 |
| ISSN: | 1469-2147 0963-1801 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0963180100007064 |
| Popis: | In 1991, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) implemented a policy that permitted the recovery of organs from cadavers pronounced dead using standardized cardiac criteria (Non-Heartbeating Cadavers or NHBC). This policy allowed families that had made a decision to forgo life sustaining treatment to then request organ donation. This entailed taking the patient to the operating room, discontinuing therapy (typically but not necessarily a ventilator), and after the patient is pronounced dead, procuring organs. |
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