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UK guidelines on transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death

British Transplantation Society.

Transplantation offers patients with end-stage organ failure a cost-effective treatment that can improve quality of life and increase life expectancy. Prior to the introduction of guidance defining the concept of brain death in the 1970s, all organs donated for transplantation were from donation after ci...

Tissue Donors/ethics, Tissue and Organ Procurement/standards, Death

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Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation After Circulatory Determination of Death-Summary Report

Pediatr. crit. care med; 18 (11), 2017

OBJECTIVES: Create trustworthy, rigorous, national clinical practice guidelines for the practice of pediatric donation after circulatory determination of death in Canada. METHODS: We followed a process of clinical practice guideline development based on World Health Organization and Canadian Medical Asso...

Canada, Death, Informed Consent, Terminal Care/methods, Terminal Care/standards, Tissue Donors, Tissue and Organ Procurement, Tissue and Organ Procurement/ethics, Withholding Treatment/standards, Tissue and Organ Procurement/methods, Tissue and Organ Procurement/standards

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