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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 2/2016

01-02-2016 | What's New in Intensive Care

Ten changes that could improve organ donation in the intensive care unit

Authors: Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Paul Murphy, Francesco Procaccio

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2016

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In March 2010, the Third WHO Global Consultation on Organ Donation and Transplantation (‘The Madrid Resolution’) called on countries to pursue self-sufficiency in transplantation in compliance with the WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation [1]. This included a call to maximize donation by incorporating it in all appropriate end-of-life care pathways. This recommendation is consistent with the progressively more accepted principle that end-of-life care decision making should be based upon an assessment of best interests that extends beyond a patient’s physical needs, to encompass broader ethical, social, moral and welfare issues, including wishes towards donation [2, 3]. …
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Metadata
Title
Ten changes that could improve organ donation in the intensive care unit
Authors
Beatriz Domínguez-Gil
Paul Murphy
Francesco Procaccio
Publication date
01-02-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3833-y

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