Organ Donation after Circulatory Death in a University Teaching Hospital
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Ethical controversies in organ donation after circulatory death.
The persistent mismatch between the supply of and need for transplantable organs has led to efforts to increase the supply, including controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD). Controlled DCD involves organ recovery after the planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and the declaration of death according to the cardiorespiratory criteria. Two central ethical issues in DCD are whe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0310-057X,1448-0271
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1604400402