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| Title |
How Should Physicians Manage Organ Donation after the Circulatory Determination of Death in Patients with Extremely Poor Neurological Prognosis?
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| Published in |
AMA Journal of Ethics, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1001/amajethics.2018.708 |
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| Abstract |
Organ donation after the circulatory determination of death (DCDD) accounts for a growing percentage of deceased organ donations. Although hospital DCDD protocols stipulate donor death determination, some do not adhere to national guidelines that require mechanical, not electrical, asystole. Surrogate decisions to withdraw life-sustaining therapy should be separated from decisions to donate organs. Donor families should be given sufficient information about the DCDD protocol and its impact on the dying process to provide informed consent, and donors should be given proper palliative care during dying. An unresolved ethical question is whether and how donor consent should be seen as authorizing manipulation of a living donor during the dying process solely for to benefit of the organ recipient. |
Twitter Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 43% |
| Mexico | 2 | 10% |
| Colombia | 1 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 5% |
| Turkey | 1 | 5% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 4 | 19% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 71% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 24% |
| Scientists | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 17 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 4 | 24% |
| Professor | 2 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 41% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 6% |
| Psychology | 1 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |