donation after cardiac determination of death(English)

• alleviates transplantation wait times, but ethical concerns have hindered implementation in some countries. Patients in the DCDD group usually suffer critical illness and a decision is made between the healthcare team and substitute decision-makers to withdraw life-sustaining therapy and allow natural death. One key difference between these pathways is that while the heart continues to beat and organs remain perfused from the moment of NDD to organ recovery, the DCDD pathway includes a period of hypoxia, followed by circulatory arrest prior to death determination
• NDD, NRP, DPP
• Transplantation, Ethics
• https://dx.doi.…pen-2019-033932