"The Boundaries of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death"

The Boundaries of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), article by James L. Bernat, M.D.

Organ Donation after Cardiac Death
"In this issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. (pages 709–714) report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. The three Perspective articles and a video roundtable discussion at www.nejm.org address key ethical aspects of organ donation after cardiac death. Bernat and Veatch comment on the cases described by Boucek et al.; Truog and Miller raise a fundamental question about the dead donor rule. In a related Perspective roundtable, moderator Atul Gawande, of Harvard Medical School, is joined by George Annas, of the Boston University School of Public Health; Arthur Caplan, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Robert Truog."

==> Watch the roundtable online at www.nejm.org.
==> Download full PDF article: click here.
(http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/359/7/669.pdf)

Source:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/7/669/DC1