Ethical Decision Diagrams on Donation After Cardiocirculatory Death Heart Transplantation Considering Organ Preservation Techniques

摘要

To overcome organ shortage, some centers accept hearts from cardiocirculatory determined death (DCD) donors for heart transplantation (HTx). DCD-HTx is attached with special ethical conflicts on the donor, family, and recipient side. Ethically motivated decisions also have to be made considering organ preservation techniques. However, ethical decision diagrams, which can be applied to find a final answer on the complex field of ethical questions, have not been developed yet.