[Amendment to the Documentation of Decisions to Withhold or Withdraw Life-sustaining Therapies in Consideration of Wish to Donate Organs : Recommendation of the Ethics Section and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Section of the German...]

Overview

Journal Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed

Specialties Critical Care
General Medicine

Date 2018 Nov 7

PMID 30397763

Citations 3

Authors

U Janssens

K M Lucking

B Boll

H Burchardi

K Dannenberg

G Duttge

R Erchinger

P Gretenkort

C Hartog

S Jobges

K Knochel

M Liebig

S Meier

A Michalsen

G Michels

M Mohr

F Nauck

P Radke

A Rogge

F Salomon

A-H Seidlein

H Stopfkuchen

G Neitzke

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Abstract

The Ethics Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) recently published a documentation for decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies. The wish to donate organs was not considered explicitly. Therefore the Ethics Section and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Section of the DIVI together with the Ethics Section of the German Society of Medical Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine worked out a supplementary footnote for the documentation form to address the individual case of a patient's wish to donate organs.

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References

Neitzke G, Boll B, Burchardi H, Dannenberg K, Duttge G, Erchinger R . [Documentation of decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapies : Recommendation of the Ethics Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) in collaboration with the Ethics Section...]. Med Klin Intensivmed Notfmed. 2017; 112(6):527-530. DOI: 10.1007/s00063-017-0321-x. View