Donation After Cardiac Death

Doctors call for a moratorium on donation after cardiac death

Michael Cook | 27 January 2012

Is that rustling in the bushes a deer or my brother? What the hell. We’ll sort it out later… BANG! Most people would regard moral reasoning like this as at least superficial. Several paediatricians writing in the latest issue of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine apparently agree. They have called for a moratorium on donating organs after cardiac death (DCD) until a number of troubling issues have been resolved. The pre-press, peer-reviewed article offers a good summary of the ethical issues.

Controversy over possible changes to US organ donation

Michael Cook | 23 September 2011

Criteria for organ donation in the US may change radically, if proposals by the United Network for Organ Sharing, which controls the allocation of organs, are implemented, the Washington Post has reported.

Donation after cardiac death under attack again

Michael Cook | 25 September 2010

Moratorium urged

The fuzzy frontier of death

Michael Cook | 07 January 2010

Why protocols for organ donation could change