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Pediatric Brain Death and Organ/Tissue Retrieval

Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects

  • Howard H. Kaufman
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Background: Including Historical, Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations

    1. Front Matter
      Pages xvii-xvii
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    2. Death-Defining Acts Historical and Cultural Observations on the End of Life
      T. Forcht Dagi
      Pages 1-30
    3. A Jewish Approach to Ethical Issues in Brain Death and Organ Transplantation
      Rabbi Moshe Tendler
      Pages 31-34
    4. Catholic Considerations of Brain Death and Organ Retrieval
      John J. Paris
      Pages 35-43
    5. Protestant Perspectives on Organ Donation
      James F. Childress
      Pages 45-53
    6. The Legal Status of Brain-Based Determinations of Death
      Alexander Morgan Capron
      Pages 55-63
    7. Brain Death Historical Perspectives and Current Concerns
      Joanne Lynn
      Pages 65-72

  3. Criteria for the Declaration of Brain Death in Children

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 73-73
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    2. Brain Death in Children Guidelines and Experience at the Massachusetts General Hospital
      Peter McL. Black, I. David Todres
      Pages 75-81
    3. Brain Death in Children The Philadelphia Experience
      Derek Bruce
      Pages 83-87
    4. Pediatric Brain Death and Organ Transplantation
      John F. Edmonds, Sik-Nin Wong
      Pages 89-99
    5. Pediatric Brain Death and Organ Transplantation The Los Angeles Experience
      J. Gordon McComb
      Pages 101-106
    6. Clinical Criteria for Pediatric Brain Death The Washington Experience
      David C. McCullough
      Pages 107-111
    7. Brain Death in Infants and Children The Atlanta Experience
      Mark O’Brien
      Pages 113-119
    8. Brain Death in Children The Loma Linda Experience
      Sanford Schneider
      Pages 121-128
    9. Brain Death in Children Task Force Guidelines
      David A. Stumpf
      Pages 129-133
    10. Validity of Radionuclide Cerebral Angiography for Diagnosing Brain Death in Infants
      Julius M. Goodman, Larry L. Heck, Stephen K. Nugent, Michael S. Turner
      Pages 135-148
    11. Detection of Blood Flow to the Brain by Radionuclide Cerebral Imaging
      Jan Arthur Schwartz, David Brill, John Baxter
      Pages 149-156
    12. The EEG in the Determination of Brain Death in Pediatric Patients The NIH Study
      Donald R. Bennett
      Pages 157-163
    13. Role of EEG in Brain Death Determination in Children The Bronx Experience
      Solomon L. Moshé, Luis A. Alvarez, Beverly A. Davidoff
      Pages 165-175

  4. Issues in Brain Death Related to Organ Donation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 177-177
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    2. Estimation of Organ and Tissue Donor Pool from Multiple Cause of Death Statistics
      R. John C. Pearson, Stephanie G. Pratt
      Pages 179-190
    3. Use of Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors Crossing a Threshold
      Ronald E. Cranford, John C. Roberts
      Pages 191-197
    4. Relaxing the Death Standard for Organ Donation in Pediatric Situations
      John A. Robertson
      Pages 199-205
    5. The Definition of Death Unresolved Controversies
      Robert M. Veatch
      Pages 207-218

  5. Needs and Possibilities in Transplantation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 219-219
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    2. Developments in Immunosuppression The Secret to the Success of Organ Transplantation
      Charles T. Van Buren
      Pages 221-232
    3. Pediatric Transplantation Needs and Potential Donors
      Nancy Ascher
      Pages 233-235
    4. Developments in Tissue Transplantation
      Kelvin G. M. Brockbank, Robert T. McNally
      Pages 237-248

  6. Other Topics in Organ Retrieval and Donation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 249-249
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    2. Organ and Tissue Retrieval and Donation The Ethical Imperative
      Albert R. Jonsen
      Pages 251-257
    3. Attitudes Toward Clinical and Social Issues in Organ Procurement
      Jeffrey M. Prottas, Helen Levine Batten
      Pages 259-266
    4. Effect of Organ Donation on Families of Brain-Dead Patients
      Roberta G. Simmons, Robert Fulton, Julie Fulton
      Pages 267-281
    5. Legal Aspects of Organ Transfer
      H. Richard Beresford
      Pages 283-289
    6. Anatomical Gifts Effective at Death
      Carl H. Lisman
      Pages 291-297
    7. Fragile Trust The Success and Failure of Required Request Laws, and the Procurement of Organs and Tissues from Children and Adults
      Arthur L. Caplan
      Pages 299-307
    8. Reconsidering the Ban on Financial Incentives
      Norman Fost
      Pages 309-315

  7. Funding of Transplantation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 317-317
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    2. Funding of Transplantation The Health Care Financing Administration
      Bernadette Schumaker
      Pages 319-323
    3. Medical Technology Evaluation and Coverage
      Susan Gleeson
      Pages 325-330
    4. The Private Insurer Response to Advanced Health Care Technology The Case of Organ Transplants
      Joel E. Miller
      Pages 331-343
    5. Federal Efforts to Improve the Organ Procurement System
      David N. Sundwall, Linda D. Sheaffer
      Pages 345-350
  8. Back Matter
    Pages 351-365
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About this book

Keywords

age beneficence brain child children death electroencephalography (EEG) organ tissue

Editors and affiliations

  • Howard H. Kaufman
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of NeurosurgeryWest Virginia University Health Sciences CenterMorgantownUSA

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