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01.02.2016 | What's New in Intensive Care
Ten changes that could improve organ donation in the intensive care unit
verfasst von:
Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Paul Murphy, Francesco Procaccio
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
In March 2010, the
Third WHO Global Consultation on Organ Donation and Transplantation (‘
The Madrid Resolution’) called on countries to pursue self-sufficiency in transplantation in compliance with the
WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation [
1]. This included a call to maximize donation by incorporating it in all appropriate end-of-life care pathways. This recommendation is consistent with the progressively more accepted principle that end-of-life care decision making should be based upon an assessment of best interests that extends beyond a patient’s physical needs, to encompass broader ethical, social, moral and welfare issues, including wishes towards donation [
2,
3]. …