RT Article
T1 Is heart transplantation after circulatory death compatible with the dead donor rule?
JF Journal of medical ethics
VO 42
IS 5
SP 319
OP 320
A1 Nair-Collins, Michael
A1 Miller, Gabriele 1923-2010
LA English
PB BMJ Publ.
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1816153591
AB Dalle Ave et al (2016) provide a valuable overview of several protocols for heart transplantation after circulatory death. However, their analysis of the compatibility of heart donation after circulatory death (DCD) with the dead donor rule (DDR) is flawed. Their permanence-based criteria for death, which depart substantially from established law and bioethics, are ad hoc and unfounded. Furthermore, their analysis is self-defeating, because it undercuts the central motivation for DDR as both a legal and a moral constraint, rendering the DDR vacuous and trivial. Rather than devise new and ad hoc criteria for death for the purpose of rendering DCD nominally consistent with DDR, we contend that the best approach is to explicitly abandon DDR.
DO 10.1136/medethics-2016-103464