We read Graham Campbell and Francis Sutherland's paper on non-heart-beating organ
donation1 with interest. Several aspects of their proposal concerned us. We feel it is …

Bruce et al conducted an opinion survey using a convenience sample in the emergency
department (ED) and concluded that patients and relatives are not averse to organ donation …

1. List the key points in the organ donation process in which the physician's efforts can
facilitate a successful donation. 2. Explain decoupled request. 3. List the criteria for …

A rapid increase in the rate of organ recovery from deceased persons has occurred in the
category of donation after “cardiac death.” Dr. Robert Steinbrook writes that these donations …

The family of a patient who is unconscious and respirator-dependent has made a decision to
discontinue medical treatment. The patient had signed a donor card. The family wants to …

The dead donor rule (DDR) states that donors must be dead before vital organs can be
procured from their bodies for the purpose of transplantation. 1 Death is declared when …

The recent consensus statement from the American Thoracic Society perfectly captured the
central ethical dilemma in organ procurement:'the tension between the need for both “live …

The current main source of transplantable organs is from heart-beating donors. These are
patients who have suffered a catastrophic brain injury, been ventilated, declared dead by …

In an editorial by the ethics advisors of the British Medical Association, Hamm and Tizzard
state that presumed consent for organ donation is the way to solve the shortage of organs for …

T HE PRACTICE OF TRANSPLANTATION THE WORLD OVER is governed by the dead
donor rule: non-paired vital organs can be retrieved only from patients who are dead. It is …