by APFLI | May 10, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A growing push has arisen from the medical community to increase the number of available human transplant organs by removing organs from non-brain-dead organ donors who experience “cardiac death” (CD) or 5 minutes of cardiac arrest. A recent article in the New...
by APFLI | Sep 30, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations Truthfulness in transplantation: non-heart-beating organ donation: Commentary Abstract The Inconvenient Truth About Organ Donations: Physician sounds alarm about unethical or at least highly questionable practices of...
by APFLI | Apr 16, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
1. Palliative Care and Organ Donation http://www.pallimed.org/2006/03/terminal-patients-in-icu-and-organ.html Monday, March 20, 2006 Terminal patients in the ICU and organ donation In my job as a palliative medicine doctor, I am frequently talking with patients and...
by APFLI | Mar 7, 2004 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
For the past several years, a little-known but disturbing revolution has been occurring in organ donation. In the understandable but sometimes alarming zeal to obtain more organs, the procedure called non-heart-beating organ donation (NHBD) has been quietly added to...
