Nicholas B Murphy, Sam D Shemie, Alex Capron, Robert D Truog, Thomas Nakagawa, Andrew Healey, Teneille Gofton, James L Bernat, Kathleen Fenton, Kiran K Khush, Bryanna Schwartz, Stephen P Wall
In controlled organ donation after circulatory determination of death (cDCDD), accurate and timely death determination is critical, yet knowledge gaps persist. Further research to improve the science of defining and determining death by circulatory criteria is therefore warranted. In a workshop sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, experts identified research opportunities pertaining to scientific, conceptual, and ethical understandings of DCDD and associated technologies. This article identifies a research strategy to inform the biomedical definition of death, the criteria for its determination, and circulatory death determination in cDCDD...
April 19, 2024: Transplantation