Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions

Rogers, Wendy A; Richards, Bernadette J

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01574.x

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In reply: The issues raised by Rady and colleagues, Tibballs, and Kennedy include claims that antemortem interventions for organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) are harmful, involve inadequate consent procedures, and require abandoning the “dead donor rule”.

1 Department of Medical Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA.
2 Law School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence: wendy.rogers@flinders.edu.au

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