The circulatory–respiratory determination of death in organ donation*
Autor: | Cynda Hylton Rushton, Sandralee Blosser, Thomas A. Nakagawa, Michael A. DeVita, Gerard J. Fulda, Alexander Morgan Capron, Douglas B. White, Susan L. Bratton, Mudit Mathur, Thomas P. Bleck, James L. Bernat, Sam D. Shemie, Cynthia J. Gries, James F. Childress |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
Brain Death
medicine.medical_specialty Resuscitation Tissue and Organ Procurement business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Circulatory death United States Heart Arrest Death Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Intensive care Emergency medicine Circulatory system medicine Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Heart Transplantation Humans Ethics Medical Organ donation Intensive care medicine business |
Zdroj: | Critical Care Medicine. 38:963-970 |
ISSN: | 0090-3493 |
DOI: | 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181c58916 |
Popis: | Death statutes permit physicians to declare death on the basis of irreversible cessation of circulatory-respiratory or brain functions. The growing practice of organ donation after circulatory determination of death now requires physicians to exercise greater specificity in circulatory-respiratory death determination. We studied circulatory-respiratory death determination to clarify its concept, practice, and application to innovative circulatory determination of death protocols.It is ethically and legally appropriate to procure organs when permanent cessation (will not return) of circulation and respiration has occurred but before irreversible cessation (cannot return) has occurred because permanent cessation: 1) is an established medical practice standard for determining death; 2) is the meaning of "irreversible" in the Uniform Determination of Death Act; and 3) does not violate the "Dead Donor Rule."The use of unmodified extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the circulatory determination of death donor after death is declared should be abandoned because, by restoring brain circulation, it retroactively negates the previous death determination. Modifications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation that avoid this problem by excluding brain circulation are contrived, invasive, and, if used, should require consent of surrogates. Heart donation in circulatory determination of death is acceptable if proper standards are followed to declare donor death after establishing the permanent cessation of circulation. Pending additional data on "auto-resuscitation," we recommend that all circulatory determination of death programs should utilize the prevailing standard of 2 to 5 mins of demonstrated mechanical asystole before declaring death. |
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