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Recovery of transplantable organs after cardiac or circulatory death: Transforming the paradigm for the ethics of organ donation

Organ donation after cardiac or circulatory death (DCD) has been introduced to increase the supply of transplantable organs. In this paper, we argue that the recovery of viable organs useful for transplantation in DCD is not compatible with the dead donor rule and we explain the consequential ethica...

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Autores principales: Verheijde, Joseph L, Rady, Mohamed Y, McGregor, Joan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17519030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-2-8