Are terminally ill patients dying in the ICU suitable for non-heart beating organ donation?

Non-heart-beating organ donation

Transplantation programmes throughout the world are struggling to maintain current levels of organ donation. Transplant waiting lists continue to rise and the resulting deficit is growing year on year. Cadaveric heart-beating donation (HBD), where death is confirmed after brain stem testing, still provides the majority of organs. Over the past 10 yr this type of donation has fallen by approxima...

Non-heart-beating organ donation

Transplantation programmes throughout the world are struggling to maintain current levels of organ donation. Transplant waiting lists continue to rise and the resulting deficit is growing year on year. Cadaveric heart-beating donation (HBD), where death is confirmed after brain stem testing, still provides the majority of organs. Over the past 10 yr this type of donation has fallen by approxima...

Truthfulness in transplantation: non-heart-beating organ donation

The current practice of organ transplantation has been criticized on several fronts. The philosophical and scientific foundations for brain death criteria have been crumbling. In addition, donation after cardiac death, or non-heartbeating-organ donation (NHBD) has been attacked on grounds that it mistreats the dying patient and uses that patient only as a means to an end for someone else's bene...

Non-heart-beating organ donation in Canada: Time to proceed?

Non-heart-beating organ donation. Designing an ethically acceptable protocol.

Dr. DnBois, an associate professor of health care ethics, Saint Louis University St. Ij)uis, is a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing s Region 8 Liver Review Board and Mid-America Transplant Services' Not i -Hea rt-Bca ting Organ Donation Lay Committee. O rgan donation after death is considered a generous gift, a gift of life. In harmony with many religious t radi t ions, the Catholi...