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Organ Donation

Seminars in Liver Disease, 2009
Liver transplantation expertise has expanded throughout the world to the point where liver transplants are available in most developed countries. In many cases, however, legislation and regulations have not kept pace with the advances in healthcare technology.
Jason, Rhee   +3 more
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Organ donation

Emergency Nurse, 2011
In this article, the research team has compared NHS Blood and Transplant data collected in all four UK countries between 1990 and 2009. They analysed rates of donation of kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs and corneas per million of the population to see how they differed between the four countries and whether the differences relate to organ type.
Eric J. Ley, Ali Salim
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Organ donation

Emergency Nurse, 2006
This article shares the work of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative (ODBC) in the United States.
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Organ Donation and Suicide

Psychological Reports, 2010
For the period 1994-2005 in the USA, suicides were less likely to be organ donors than were victims of homicide and motor vehicle accidents.
David Lester, Domenique Hathaway
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Organ Donation: Mandatory Organ Donation Declaration

2010
By not donating or saving the organs for the living we are letting someone die. Presumed donation or presumed refuse? Many more organs are needed than available. How to establish a system of fair distribution? It may be recommended that everyone in a country be required to declare if they wish to donate and only those who are on the list to donate can ...
Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles
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Compelled organ donation

Gender Medicine, 2009
Along with ethical considerations, compelling an individual to donate organs, tissues, or bodily fluids brings several legal doctrines into conflict. The privacy of one's body is generally considered sacrosanct by American courts, which have upheld a competent adult's right to refuse medical procedures, even in cases when they are necessary to save the
Rebekka C. Noll   +2 more
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Organ Donation and Retrieval

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1994
Organ donation and successful retrieval of life-saving organs is a complex process involving coordination of multiple transplant teams. Once brain death has been declared, assessment of the medical suitability of the donor and the arrangement of appropriate retrieval teams of surgeons is the responsibility of the organ procurement organization.
Van Buren Ct, Barakat O
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Organization of an Organ Donation Network

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1986
The National Organ Donation Network involves numerous organizations and institutions, with the organ procurement agencies playing a key role. Figure 2 depicts the complex structure of the procurement process. There is little consistency in structure among community procurement networks, but there is a strong unified approach to the national sharing of ...
Faye D. Davis   +2 more
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Organ Donation in Suicides

Transplantation Proceedings, 2007
There are few reports in the literature analyzing brain death epidemiology in suicides, or the rate of donation and family authorization in such situations.The objectives of this study were to analyze the frequency of suicide as a cause of brain death and to compare the donation rates among this population with other causes of brain death.We reviewed ...
V.D. Garcia   +7 more
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