Taking values seriously: Ethical challenges in organ donation and transplantation for critical care professionals

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Aulisio, Mark P ^a,b   DeVita, Michael ^c   Luebke, Donna ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Donation after cardiac death; End of life; Ethics; Living organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; DECISION MAKING; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CRITICAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TERMINAL CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33846405623     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000252915.76019.19     Document Type: Review

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