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Article: UNOS formalizes regarding premature retrieval of organs.(United Network for Organ Sharing)(Brief article)
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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To allay fears that surgeons might try to retrieve the organs of dying patients prematurely, the board of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) approved standards last week to protect the growing number of donors who have no hope of recovery but who are not officially brain-dead. In donation after cardiac death, donors have suffered a devastating brain injury and require ventilators to breathe but still have minimal brain function.
Such retrieval has become more common in recent years as doctors have sought to expand the donor pool beyond the limited number of people who are brain-dead. In such cases, patients are removed from life support with families' consent. ...