Organ Donation After Euthanasia: A Pure Act of Altruism Fulfilling the Patient's Last Wish

J Bollen; W de Jongh; H Hagenaars; G van Dijk; R Ten Hoopen; D Ysebaert; J IJzermans; E van Heurn; W van Mook

doi:10.1111/ajt.14167

Organ Donation After Euthanasia: A Pure Act of Altruism Fulfilling the Patient's Last Wish

Am J Transplant. 2017 Mar;17(3):843-844. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14167. Epub 2017 Jan 23.

Authors

J Bollen^{1

2}, W de Jongh³, H Hagenaars⁴, G van Dijk⁵, R Ten Hoopen⁶, D Ysebaert⁷, J IJzermans⁸, E van Heurn⁹, W van Mook¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
³ Donation and Transplant Coordination, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁴ Donation and Transplant Coordination, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁵ Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Health Care, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Health Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Hepatobiliary, Transplantation and Endocrine Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁸ Department of Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: donors and donation: deceased; donors and donation: extended criteria; ethics; ethics and public policy; guidelines; law/legislation; organ allocation; organ procurement and allocation.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Altruism
Euthanasia*
Humans
Organ Transplantation*
Tissue and Organ Procurement*