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Intensive care for organ preservation: A four-stage pathway

Gardiner, Dale and Shaw, David M. and Kilcullen, Jack K. and Dalle Ave, Anne L.. (2019) Intensive care for organ preservation: A four-stage pathway. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 20 (4). pp. 335-340.

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Abstract

Intensive care for organ preservation (ICOP) is defined as the initiation or pursuit of intensive care not to save the patient's life, but to protect and optimize organs for transplantation.; When a patient has devastating brain injury that might progress to organ donation this can be conceptualized as evolving through four consecutive stages: (1) instability, (2) stability, (3) futility and (4) finality. ICOP might be applied at any of these stages, raising different ethical issues. Only in the stage of; finality; is the switch from neurointensive care to ICOP ethically justified.; The difference between the stages is that during instability, stability and futility the focus must be neurointensive care which seeks the patient's recovery or an accurate neurological prognostication, while finality focuses on withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy and commencement of comfort care, which may include ICOP for deceased donation.
Faculties and Departments:08 Cross-disciplinary Subjects > Ethik > Institut für Bio- und Medizinethik > Bio- und Medizinethik (Elger)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Public Health > Ethik in der Medizin > Bio- und Medizinethik (Elger)
UniBasel Contributors:Shaw, David
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:SAGE
ISSN:1751-1437
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:21 Jan 2020 16:23
Deposited On:21 Jan 2020 16:23

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