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Donación tras la Muerte Cardiaca y Servicios de Urgencias: Problemas Éticos
Author(s) -
Simon Jeremy R.,
Schears Raquel M.,
Padela Aasim I.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.12284
Subject(s) - medicine , organ donation , economic shortage , emergency department , donation , ethical issues , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , transplantation , emergency medicine , surgery , nursing , law , engineering ethics , political science , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
Abstract Organ donation after cardiac death ( DCD ) is increasingly considered as an option to address the shortage of organs available for transplantation, both in the United States and worldwide. The procedures for DCD differ from procedures for donation after brain death and are likely less familiar to emergency physicians ( EP s), even as this process is increasingly involving emergency departments ( ED s). This article explores the ED operational and ethical issues surrounding this procedure.