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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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Being Convinced and Taking Responsibility: A Qualitative Study of Family Members’ Experience of Organ Donation Decision and Bereavement After Brain Death*

Critical Care Medicine, 2019
Objectives: Family members of brain dead patients experience an unprecedented situation in which not only they are told that their loved one is dead but are also asked to consider organ donation. The objective of this qualitative study was to determine 1)
N. Kentish-Barnes   +22 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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Organ donation protocols

2017
Organ transplantation improves survival and quality of life in patients with end-organ failure. Waiting lists continue to grow across the world despite remarkable advances in the transplantation process, from the creation of public engagement campaigns to the development of critical pathways for the timely identification, referral, approach, and ...
David M. Greer   +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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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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Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding organ donation among adult population of urban Puducherry, South India

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2018
BACKGROUND: India is currently having a deceased donation rate of 0.05–0.08 per million population. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Programme have planned strategies to improve organ donation by creating awareness and capacity building. There is
Gokul Sarveswaran   +4 more
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Innovations in Organ Donation

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine, 2012
AbstractThe growing disparity between organ availability for transplantation and the number of patients in need has challenged the donation and transplantation community of practice to develop innovative processes, ideas, and techniques to bridge the gaps. Advances in the sharing of best practices in the donation community have contributed greatly over
James V. Guarrera   +4 more
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