tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Pro/con debate: In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death, starting medications and/or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Pro/con debate: In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death, starting medications and/or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice. | Available online http content 11 2 211 Review Pro con debate In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death starting medications and or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice Jason Phua1 2 Tow Keang Lim1 3 David A Zygun4 5 6 and Christopher J Doig4 6 7 1 Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine National University Hospital 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119074 Singapore interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospitals Toronto Ontario Canada 3Department of Medicine Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore 4Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Calgary Alberta Canada 5Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary Alberta Canada 6Department of Community Health Sciences University of Calgary Alberta Canada 7Department of Medicine University of Calgary Alberta Canada Corresponding author Tow Keang Lim mdclimtk@ Published 17 April 2007 This article is online at http content 11 2 211 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2007 11 211 doi cc5711 Abstract Several hospitals have been developing programmes for organ donation after cardiac death. Such programmes offer options for organ donation to patients who do not meet brain-death criteria but wish to donate their organs after withdrawal of life-support. These programmes also increase the available organ pool at a time when demand exceeds supply. Given that potential donors are managed in intensive care units intensivists will be key components of these programmes. Donation after cardiac death clearly carries a number of important ethical issues with it. In the present issue of Critical Care two established groups debate the ethical acceptability of using medications interventions in potential organ donors for the sole purpose of making the organs