| Ethical and legal issues in donation after cardiac death in Italy. | |
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PMID: 20534220 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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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. |
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Authors:
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P Bruzzone |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Transplantation proceedings Volume: 42 ISSN: 1873-2623 ISO Abbreviation: Transplant. Proc. Publication Date: 2010 May |
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Created Date: 2010-06-10 Completed Date: 2010-10-29 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0243532 Medline TA: Transplant Proc Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1046-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of General Surgery, Paride Stefanini, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. paolo.bruzzone@fastwebnet.it |
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Brain Death Crime Death* Electrocardiography Ethics, Medical Euthanasia / legislation & jurisprudence France Heart Arrest Humans Italy Legislation, Medical Netherlands Spain Time Factors Tissue and Organ Procurement / ethics*, legislation & jurisprudence* |
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