These recommendations are the result of a national, multidisciplinary, year-long process to
discuss whether and how to proceed with organ donation after cardiocirculatory death …

A decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment (WLST) is derived by a conclusion that
further treatment will not enable a patient to survive or will not produce a functional outcome …

Many believe that the ethical problems of donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) have
been" worked out" and that it is unclear why DCD should be resisted. In this paper we will …

Owing to the shortage of organ donors, there is renewed interest in donation after cardiac
death (DCD), formerly referred to as nonheart-beating donation. From January 1984 until …

Background: Transplantation of hearts retrieved from donation after circulatory death (DCD)
donors is an evolving clinical practice. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to provide an …

OBJECTIVES Demand for heart transplant donors worldwide continues to outstrip supply.
Transplanting hearts following donation after circulatory-determined death (DCD) is …

Objective: Organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) is one promising possibility of
combating the organ shortage, but it raises ethical issues that differ from those raised in …

The interest in donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) was renewed in the early 1990s,
as a means to partially overcome the shortage of donations after brain death. In some …

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can be performed on neurologically intact donors
who do not fulfill neurologic or brain death criteria before circulatory arrest. This commentary …

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) describes the retrieval of organs for the purposes of
transplantation that follows death confirmed using circulatory criteria. The persisting shortfall …