Tag: organ transplant
Published Articles (5)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 11 Issue 10 - Oct 2011
Response to Open Peer Commentaries: Rationing Just Medical Care Lawrence J. Schneiderman
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 4 - Apr 2010
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ?Complete Lives in the Balance? Samuel J. Kerstein
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 10 Issue 4 - Apr 2010
Complete Lives in the Balance Samuel J. Kerstein
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 4 Issue 1 - Jan 2004
Gaming the Transplant System Timothy F. Murphy
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 2 Issue 3 - Sep 2002
Review of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death Sheldon Zink
News (11)
June 11, 2013 1:27 pm
Girl Prompts Small Change to Organ Transplant Policy
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network voted to keep the so-called Under 12 Rule, but it created a mechanism that would allow doctors to request exceptions for their pediatric patients.
February 25, 2013 4:39 pm
Heart transplant patients are living longer, better, thanks to advancements (The Miami Herald)
Advancements in anti-rejection drugs that have fewer severe side effects, longer survival rates for pediatric and adult heart transplant patients, and new devices are a few of the steps forward in treating patients with coronary heart disease and other defects.
February 19, 2013 12:48 pm
Charity worker survives six-organ transplant ordeal (The Northern Echo)
A charity worker who had six of her organs transplanted after being given six months to live has returned to work. She has become one of three patients in Britain to survive a single six-organ transplant operation, in which she was given a new stomach, liver, kidney, colon, pancreas and small intestine.
September 5, 2012 7:57 pm
Do Current Organ Transplant Policies Restrict Potential Donors? (Huffington Post)
A friend of mine, a transplant surgeon, was emotionally recounting a recent experience. A young woman with organ failure desperately needed a transplant, but none was available, and she was sinking rapidly. She, her family, and the medical team expected that she would be dead before the morning, and she had already said her goodbyes. The team was in despair, knowing that they could have saved her if only the means had been available. Then, suddenly, news came that a donor had been found. Everyone rushed into action, and by the next day joy was unconfined. That story had a happy ending, but its purpose was to emphasize the thousands of similar stories that end in tragedy. Innumerable people experience firsthand the misery of failing organs, and their doctors suffer the intense distress of knowing they have the skills to save them but not the organs themselves.
June 21, 2012 1:15 pm
National organ plan aims to boost donations (CBC News)
Canada must do better to help its citizens receive life-saving and life-enhancing transplants, says Canadian Blood Services, which released a blueprint Wednesday for boosting organ and tissue donations across the country. The blueprint includes 25 recommendations on how provinces and territories can work together to create a national strategy to improve Canada’s transplantation rate. If implemented, the plan “would result in a 50 per cent increase in the number of organ transplants in Canada and a doubling of the number of tissue donors — saving and improving the lives of thousands of Canadians,” said Dr. Graham Sher, CEO of Canadian Blood Services (CBS).
June 19, 2012 11:45 am
SPH Ethicist: Organ Donor Proposal “Bizarre” (BU Today)
With nearly 100,000 Americans needing donor kidneys and a typical wait of three to five years, transplant surgeons and some bioethicists are proposing easing the rules—extending the live donor category to expand to include “emotionally related” donors… The most controversial proposal, by an associate professor of surgery at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, suggests that doctors not wait until donors are actually brain dead to remove their kidneys. In an article published in theAmerican Journal of Bioethics, Paul Morrissey argues for rule changes that would allow doctors to anesthetize and harvest organs from severely brain-injured patients who are, according to the prevailing definition, still alive.
June 7, 2012 3:29 pm
More Hispanics die waiting for a heart transplant (Reuters)
Hispanic patients in need of a heart transplant are 50 percent more likely to die before they get one than white patients, according to new research. And although that wasn’t the case for black transplant patients in the study, the results suggest they have a higher chance of dying soon after they’ve received a donor heart than whites.
June 7, 2012 12:03 am
Denial of Transplants for Undocumented Sparks Protest in Chicago (Fox News)
A group headed by a Salvadoran-born priest are completing the third day of a hunger strike to protest the refusal by two Chicago hospitals to perform organ transplants on unauthorized immigrants who lack health insurance.
June 6, 2012 11:59 pm
Surgeon: Remove Kidneys for Transplant Before Donor's Death (ABC News)
The severe shortage of viable organs for transplantation in the U.S. has led a transplant surgeon to propose harvesting kidneys from people who are not dead yet. Dr. Paul Morrissey, an associate professor of surgery at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics that the protocol known as donation after cardiac death — meaning death as a result of irreversible damage to the cardiovascular system — has increased the number of organs available for transplant, but has a number of limitations, including the need to wait until the heart stops.
April 20, 2012 12:20 pm
Feds find 'significant' problems with kidney transplant program in N.J. (The Republic)
The federal government found 28 “significant” deficiencies in the kidney transplant program at Hackensack University Medical Center before the hospital agreed to suspend it temporarily next month for an overhaul, according to Medicare documents. The hospital says it already has lowered the higher-than-expected rate of transplant patient deaths and kidney failure cited by Medicare last year when it originally threatened to close the program. The other deficiencies already have been corrected, hospital and Medicare officials said.