Why DCD Donors Are Dead.

Critics of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) argue that, even if donors are past the point of autoresuscitation, they have not satisfied the "irreversibility" requirement in the circulatory and respiratory criteria for determining death, since their circulation and respiration could be ar...

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Bibliographic Details

Published in:	Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 42 - 61
Main Author:	Lizza, John P
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2020
Subjects:	Do-not-resuscitate orders Organ donation Proof & certification of death Organ donors Loss of consciousness
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost