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Published on: August 2, 2019
Ethically informed pragmatic conditions for organ donation after cardiocirculatory death: could they assist in policy
1Department of Bioethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. JeffreyKirby@dal.ca
Abstract:
The modern practice of organ donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) emerged in the 1990s as a response to the alarmingly wide gap between the number of transplantable organs available through organ donation after neurological death and the urgent organ transplantation needs of persons in end-organ failure. Various important ethical dimensions of DCD have been considered and debated by prominent organ donation/transplantation theorists and clinicians. In this article, consideration of some of these ethical elements provides a foundation for a proposed set of ethically informed, pragmatic conditions that could assist in the development of health policies to guide the practice of organ donation after cardiocirculatory death.
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