Ethical and legal issues in donation after cardiac death in Italy.

Abstract:

:In Italy death of a human being must be declared either after brain death or after 20 minutes of cardiac arrest, certified by continuous electrocardiography (EKG) recording. It is my personal opinion that in such circumstances after cardiac death (DCD) will allow at best only the retrieval of few marginal kidneys and some tissues, and therefore will not be very helpful for our waiting list patients. I suggest instead modifying first the Italian law in order to be able to declare cardiac death after only 5 minutes of cardiac arrest, certified by continuous EKG recording.

journal_name

Transplant Proc

authors

Bruzzone P

doi

10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.03.057

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-05-01 00:00:00

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1046-7

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4

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0041-1345

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1873-2623

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S0041-1345(10)00345-3

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42

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