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Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 7-9

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... The ethical and legal requirements for donor patient care and the imperatives of the organ conservation, recovery, and transplant process seem to render actions on behalf of donors as patients and as donors, and on behalf of organs that are in condition to give recipients the best possible chance for new hope and life, difficult or even impossible to reconcile. The issues raised by these actions Although "donor" is standard usage, most NHBDs are not donors as the word is usually understood outside of this context, because they themselves did not consent.
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From page 8...
... These issues are particularly salient in the NHBD because interventions in the heart-beating donor occur in a brain-dead cadaver, and the living donor involves an autonomous, consenting person for whom every effort in his or her care is addressed toward a healthy, medically uncompromised survival. There is a relentlessly increasing need for organs for patients with lifethreatening organ failures that requires the recruitment of donors and timely intervention to obtain the donated organs in the best possible transplantable condition.
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From page 9...
... have suffered cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of severe illness or injury just before admission or during their hospital stay. This "uncontrolled" event dictates great speed in retrieving organs, early organ preservation interventions, or sequences of resuscitation efforts that start and stop depending on the status of the donor and the transplantable organs.
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Key Terms

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  • organ supply
  • transplantable organs
  • donor patients
  • ethical principles

  • informed consent
  • controlled nhbds
  • dead donor
  • donor rule
  • principles apply

  • patient care
  • legal determination
  • primary cause
  • retrieving organs
  • pulmonary function

  • preservation interventions
  • legal requirements
  • confusing modifier
  • stop depending
  • medically uncompromised

  • medical technology
  • severe injury
  • interventions desirable
  • donor occur
  • practical purpose

  • donated organs
  • manage patients
  • ethical standards
  • final illness
  • cadaver donors


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