This case discussion is based on a patient admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) in the UK
and much of the discussions relating to professional, ethical, and legal issues are based on …

The need for organs for donation is far greater than organ availability. In the last decade this
has led to restructuring and investment in the organ donation programme with political and …

Organ donation rates in the UK are amongst the lowest in Europe and there is a widening
gap between the supply of cadaveric organ donors and the demand for solid organ …

Laws and policies governing the use of organs for transplantation are evolving rapidly in
response to sensitivity to ethical concerns and increasing shortages of transplantable …

Organ donation and transplant rates vary widely across the globe, but there remains an
almost universal shortage of deceased donors. The unmet need for transplants has resulted …

This article details and comments upon the current critical and historic debate affecting the
medical treatment of potential deceased organ donors in the last phase of their lives. The …

Organ donation and transplantation has transformed the lives of many around the world.
Despite its place as a treatment option for numerous forms of end-stage organ disease, the …

Deceased organ donation is frequently considered to lie at the interface between a critical
care clinician's primary and non-negotiable obligations to the care of a dying or dead patient …

Noelle Melarkey has been in the current post for one year, which included a training period
of six months that included a mixture of classroom, interactive learning and close mentorship …

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systems, such as public awareness campaigns, intent-to-donate registries, donor nurse …