Scientific, legal, and ethical challenges of end-of-life organ procurement in emergency medicine

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1069-1078

  Rady, Mohamed Y ^a,b   Verheijde, Joseph L ^a,b   McGregor, Joan L ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cardiac death; Circulatory death; Collaborative programs; Death statute; End of life; Ethics; Heart beating donation; Informed consent; Legislations; Non heart beating donation; Organ donation; Procurement coordinators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CIRCULATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FAMILY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART BEAT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BRAIN DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SCIENCE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 77955845115     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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