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| File Photo surgery performed at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center |
The organization is also poised to eliminate what many consider a central bulwark protecting patients in such already controversial cases: an explicit ban on even considering anyone for those donations before doctors and family members have independently decided to stop trying to save them.
The proposed changes by the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Richmond nonprofit organization that coordinates organ donation under a contract with the federal government, are part of the first major overhaul of the 2007 guidelines governing “donation after cardiac death,” or DCD, which accounts for a small but growing percentage of donations each year.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/changes-in-controversial-organ-donation-method-stir-fears/2011/09/15/gIQAlY9agK_story.html
DESPITE WHAT ONE HEARS, DONATION AFTER CARDIAC DEATH (DCD) IS NOT SOMETHING NEW NOR MYSTERIOUS. ORGAN RECOVERY PERFORMED IN THE 1970's and 80's WERE PERFORMED BY DCD - AT THAT TIME IT WAS CALLED NON-HEART BEATING DONORS (NHBD). THE AXIOM BY WHICH DCD IS PERFORMED IS THE FACT THAT THE PATIENT HAS IN ADVANCE MADE HIS/HER DESIRE NOT TO BE ON A MECHANICAL VENTILATOR OR IN THE EVENT THE PATIENT HAS NOT MADE HIS/HER WISHES KNOWN IN ADVANCE, THE LEGAL NEXT OF KIN HAS DECIDED ALONG WITH THE TREATING PHYSICIAN TO DISCONTINUE TREATMENT.
DESPITE WHAT ONE HEARS, DONATION AFTER CARDIAC DEATH (DCD) IS NOT SOMETHING NEW NOR MYSTERIOUS. ORGAN RECOVERY PERFORMED IN THE 1970's and 80's WERE PERFORMED BY DCD - AT THAT TIME IT WAS CALLED NON-HEART BEATING DONORS (NHBD). THE AXIOM BY WHICH DCD IS PERFORMED IS THE FACT THAT THE PATIENT HAS IN ADVANCE MADE HIS/HER DESIRE NOT TO BE ON A MECHANICAL VENTILATOR OR IN THE EVENT THE PATIENT HAS NOT MADE HIS/HER WISHES KNOWN IN ADVANCE, THE LEGAL NEXT OF KIN HAS DECIDED ALONG WITH THE TREATING PHYSICIAN TO DISCONTINUE TREATMENT.
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