by APFLI | May 2, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
A prominent Melbourne doctor has written that, contrary to popular belief, most organ donations take place before the donor is actually dead. He argues that the vague criterion of "brain death" has blinded potential donors to the fact that their organs are...
by APFLI | May 2, 2010 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ Donation” Also suggests that “donor death” criteria for organ donation should be abandoned According to Dr. Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics at...
by APFLI | Jul 13, 2009 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Commentary: ‘Cardiac Death’ Allows One to Kill the Organ Donor Analysis by Dr. John Shea MD FRCP(C), Medical Advisor to LifeSiteNews.com In 2006, research done by Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardio-thoracic surgeon and UCLA expert, demonstrated that a...
by APFLI | Nov 18, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Despite his own task force having said that it will not succeed, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will not give up on a plan that would see every person in the UK automatically registered as an organ donor. Brown said of the task force and his plan,...
by APFLI | Nov 17, 2008 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
ORGAN DONATION — Vague Criterion of "Brain Death" has Blinded Potential Donors to the fact that their organs are often harvested while they are still alive Shock: Oxford Neonatologist Says Time Has Come to Consider “Mandatory Organ...
