Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

An ethical dilemma in the ICU: Retrieving semen from a brain dead patient

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Townsend MF 3rd, Richard JR, Witt MA (1996) Artificially stimulated ejaculation in the brain dead patient: a case report. Urology 47: 760–762

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bewley S (1998) The patient was assaulted. BMJ 317: 1583–1585

    Google Scholar 

  • Iserson KV (1998) Sperm donation from a comatose, dying man. Cambridge Q Healthcare Ethics 7: 209–213

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pozda R, Miedema F, Matthews M (1996) Sperm collection in the brain dead patient. Dimens Crit Care Nurs 15: 98–104

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Webb SM (1996) Raising sperm from the dead. J Androl 17: 325–326

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Swinn M, Emberton M, Ralph D, Smith M, Serhal P (1998) Retrieving semen from a dead patient. BMJ 317: 1583–1585

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Susan Tash JA, Applegarth LD, Kerr SM, Fins JJ, Rosenwaks Z, Schlegel PN (2003) Postmortem sperm retrieval: the effect of instituting guidelines. J Urol 170: 1922–1925

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital of Bozen, Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy

    Bernadetta Moser

Authors
  1. Bernadetta Moser
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Georg Röggla
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Bernadetta Moser.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Moser, B., Röggla, G. An ethical dilemma in the ICU: Retrieving semen from a brain dead patient. Wien Klin Wochenschr 119, 438–439 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-007-0831-2

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-007-0831-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation