Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death (Hardcover)

With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver doctors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage to their organs due to ischaemia, and as a consequence, some organs do not work initially and some none at all. The proportion of such transplants has increased dramatically in recent years--25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006, highlighting how much progress has been made.
Written by international experts, this book lays out the moral, legal, and ethical restraints to using such donors for organ transplant together with the techniques that have been adpoted to improve their outcome. The different approaches and results of renal transplant according to country are covered together with the procedures and outcomes adopted to use other organs, notably the liver and lungs.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	May 2009
Editors:	David Talbot • Anthony D'Alessandro
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-921733-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > Surgery > Surgical techniques Books > Medicine > Surgery > Transplant surgery
LSN:	0-19-921733-5
Barcode:	9780199217335

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