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Relaxing the Death Standard for Organ Donation in Pediatric Situations

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A major ethical and legal constraint in organ procurement is the requirement that organs be removed only from dead patients. Although kidneys and bone marrow are obtained from living donors, the dead donor rule controls the procurement of hearts, livers, and most kidneys. Brain-death tests of death permit the removal of these organs from heart-beating but brain-dead sources.

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  1. School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78705, USA

    John A. Robertson

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, 26506, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

    Howard H. Kaufman M.D.

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Robertson, J.A. (1989). Relaxing the Death Standard for Organ Donation in Pediatric Situations. In: Kaufman, H.H. (eds) Pediatric Brain Death and Organ/Tissue Retrieval. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5532-8_21

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