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

Ethical considerations in non-heart beating donation: a narrative review article

Non-heart-beating organ donors as a source of kidneys for transplantation: a chart review.

BACKGROUND Organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage organ failure, but the supply of organs has not increased to meet demand. This study was undertaken to determine the potential for kidney donation from patients with irremediable brain injuries who do not meet the criteria for brain death and who experience cardiopulmonary arrest after withdrawal of ventilat...

COMMENTARY UK guidance for non-heart-beating donation

This guidance offers consensus opinion on the optimum management of non-heart-beating organ donation in adult critical care units. The guidance is not meant to dictate practice but rather to offer suggestions as to what might be considered reasonable practice. The following sections mainly relate to the medical aspects of non-heart-beating organ donation. Fuller guidance on other aspects of org...

Interaction between transplant coordinator and non-heart-beating donor family members.

Thanks to continuous advances in transplantology in Poland, over 1000 patients a year are given a chance for new life or improvement of its quality. The number of identified brain-dead donors increases every year, so is the number of transplanted organs. Unfortunately, despite the substantially improved transplantation system in Poland, the number of patients awaiting organ transplants is marke...

First Do No Harm in End-of-Life Care: A Comment on the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for Post-Resuscitation Care of Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Dear Editor: The American Heart Association published guidelines on neuro-prognostication strategies and treatment withdrawal after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Instead of providing guidance on optimizing the quality of end-of-life care, the authors concluded with a Class I (strong) recommendation that ‘‘all patients who are resuscitated from cardiac arrest but who subsequently pro...