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Organ Recovery Procedure in Donation After Controlled Circulatory Death with Normothermic Regional Perfusion: State of the Art
2020
The global shortage of organ donors will not be resolved solely by relying on donation after brain death. Expansion to use of donation after controlled circulatory death will be needed to address the shortfall of organs for transplantation. The processes of warm ischemia threaten the viability of organs obtained after controlled circulatory death, but these can be minimized by well-organized donation pathways and new techniques of in situ organ preservation, such as normothermic regional perfusion. The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) devices for normothermic regional perfusion in liver transplantation can help reduce rates of biliary complications, ischemic type biliary le…
Willingness to Donate Organs After Death
2023
Abstract: Background: Despite the growing number of organ transplants, there is still a significant difference between the number of donated organs and the number of people waiting for them. Knowing the reason people decide to donate is the first step to increasing organ donation rates. Aims: The main aim of the present study was to develop and validate a new scale for organ donation. Method: In three studies, 3,585 participants ranging in age between 14 and 89 years were selected through systematic random sampling. In the first study, we created a scale following the organ donation model theoretical framework and submitted the scale to exploratory factor analysis. In the second study, we …
Organ transplantation in China: concerns remain
2015
On Dec 3, 2014, Jiefu Huang, Director of the China Organ Donation and Transplant Committee and former Vice Minister of Health, announced that, from Jan 1, 2015, only voluntarily donated organs would be used for transplantation. Worldwide media reported that China would stop use of executed prisoners as an organ source. The Editorial1 in The Lancet interpreted the announcement in a similar manner; unfortunately, this interpretation does not reflect the reality.
Binding communication at the service of organ donations
2010
International audience; Le but du projet était de diminuer le taux de refus des dons de cornées par les familles des personnes décédées, lors des demandes effectuées au téléphone par les coordinateurs des greffes d'un Centre Hospitalier Universitaire français. La démarche s'est déroulée en plusieurs étapes : 1/ recherche d'un consensus, par les coordinateurs des greffes, sur une > d'entretien téléphonique avec les familles des personnes décédées ; 2/ optimisation de cette pratique à la lumière du paradigme de la communication engageante. La différence essentielle entre > et > tient aux actes > (un versus deux) que les coordinateurs doivent s'efforcer d'obtenir de la part des familles avant …
Decisioni sul termine della vita e donazione degli organi. Spunti comparatistici per una futura disciplina
2021
The essay focuses on organ donation as a possible choice for those patients seeking euthanasia or assisted suicide whose informed and free consent has to be carefully preserved. In that case, indeed, concern for the welfare of others, on the one hand, and dying for having relief from illness, on the other hand, could confusedly converge in the will of a vulnerable person receiving medical treatments. The Dutch and the Belgian statutory frameworks governing organ donation after euthanasia can shed light on this such ethical theme involving human dignity that should be ignored by the Italian legislator anymore.
Vascularized composite allotransplantation - a Council of Europe position paper
2017
After more than 120 hand-upper extremity and 37 face transplant procedures performed worldwide, vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) now falls under the scope of organ transplant legislation in Europe and the United States. While in the USA, VCA has been considered as standard care since 2014, VCA in Europe is still performed through clinical research trials, except in United Kingdom. However, after two decades of favourable experience with upper extremity transplantation (UET), professionals in Europe are proposing hand allotransplantation as “controlled standard” care, as opposed to face transplantation (FT), which is still a challenging activity. The European Committee on Org…
Dying to Save Lives: Zell Kravinsky, Peter Singer, and Lethal Organ Donation
2018
In 2003, after disbursing the bulk of his accumulated fortune of forty-five million dollars to various charities, Zell Kravinsky made the even greater altruistic decision to donate one of his kidneys to a complete stranger. In doing so he incurred the wrath of many in the psychiatric and health professions who questioned his sanity. In response, Kravinsky argued that refusal to donate would have constituted a violation of his belief in “maximum human utility” – a philosophical concept that insists we give up as much as we can for the good of others. Kravinsky has since stated that he would undergo a lethal organ donation in order to save a greater number of people from death, or to save peo…
Natura e caratteristiche del consenso al prelievo di organi e tessuti da cadavere Un raffronto tra Italia ed Inghilterra
2018
The essay deals with the deceased donor organ donations and, in particular, with the nature and the features of the consent which authorizes the removal from the body of a deceased person of any relevant material. The analysis is conducted through the scrutiny of the relationship that exists between the choice about to be or not an organ donor and the social interest to obtain a rapid increase of organ donation. The essay makes a comparison between the Italian and the English legal approaches to the freedom of deciding the allocations of removed organs, with a special regard to directed donations.