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When does life end? New organ donation strategy fuels debate
On a chilly holiday Monday in January 2020, a medical milestone passed largely unnoticed. In a New York City operating room, surgeons gently removed the heart from a 43-year-old man who had died and shuttled it steps away to a patient in desperate need of a new one. More than 3500 people in the United States receive a new heart each year. But this case was different—the first of its kind in the country. “It took us 6 months to prepare,” says Nader Moazami, surgical head of heart transplantation at New York University (NYU) Langone Health, where the operation took place. The run-up included oversight from an ethi...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Non-therapeutic intensive care for organ donation: A healthcare professionals' opinion survey.
CONCLUSION: The acceptance by healthcare professionals of non-therapeutic intensive care for brain death organ donation seems fairly good, despite a suboptimal education regarding brain death, non-therapeutic intensive care and families' support. But they ask to require previously expressed patient's consent and family's approval. So, it seems that non-therapeutic intensive care should only remain an ethically sound mean of empowerment of organ donors and their families to make post-mortem donation happen as a full respect of individual autonomy. PMID: 25488762 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Nursing Ethics - December 8, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Camut S, Baumann A, Dubois V, Ducrocq X, Audibert G Tags: Nurs Ethics Source Type: research