When is directed deceased donation justified? Practical, ethical, and legal issues.

This paper explores whether directed deceased organ donation should be permitted, and if so under which conditions. While organ donation and allocation systems must be fair and transparent, might it be "one thought too many" to prevent directed donation within families? We proceed by providing a description of the medical and legal context, followed by identification of the main ethical issues involved in directed donation, and then explore these through a series of hypothetical cases similar to those encountered in practice. Ultimately, we set certain conditions under which directed deceased donation may be ethically acceptable.

The circulatory death that saves lives-Intensive care nurses' conceptions of participating during 'donation after circulatory death': A phenomenographic study.

Aim: To describe intensive care nurses' conceptions of participating during the donation after circulatory death (DCD) process in intensive care units in Sweden.

Design: A qualitative design with a phenomenographic approach.

Methods: In total, 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted in April 2022 with intensive care nurses from three hospitals.

Corrigendum: An Inventory of Deceased Donor Family Care and Contact Between Donor Families and Recipients in 15 European Countries.

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An Inventory of Deceased Donor Family Care and Contact Between Donor Families and Recipients in 15 European Countries.

Families of organ donors play an important role in the deceased organ donation process. The aim of this study was to gain insight into donor family care by creating an inventory of practice in various European countries. A questionnaire about donor family care and contact between donor families and recipients was developed.

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the Flodén ATODAI instrument in the North American context.

Background: Intensive and critical-care nurses are the key to successful donor management in the critical-care setting. No studies measuring attitudes toward organ donor advocacy existed before 2011, when the 51-item Swedish "Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy Scale" was developed. The aim of this study was to translate, adapt and establish the psychometric properties of the North American version of the Flodén ATODAI (Attitudes Toward Organ Donor Advocacy Instrument) in terms of validity and reliability.

The Meaning of Being a Living Kidney, Liver, or Stem Cell Donor-A Meta-Ethnography.

Background: Studies on living donors from the donors' perspective show that the donation process involves both positive and negative feelings involving vulnerability. Qualitative studies of living kidney, liver, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell donors have not previously been merged in the same analysis. Therefore, our aim was to synthesize current knowledge of these donors' experiences to deepen understanding of the meaning of being a living donor for the purpose of saving or extending someone's life.

Circulating resistin levels are early and significantly increased in deceased brain dead organ donors, correlate with inflammatory cytokine response and remain unaffected by steroid treatment.

Introduction: Resistin is a pro-inflammatory adipokine that increases after brain injury (trauma, bleeding) and may initiate an inflammatory response. Resistin was found increased in deceased, brain dead organ donors (DBD) and correlated with delayed graft function after kidney transplantation. The kinetics of resistin during brain death (BD), its impact on the inflammatory response and the influence of several donor variables on resistin levels are still unknown.

Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive care nurses.

Objectives: To explore the attitudes of Swedish intensive care nurses towards organ donor advocacy.

Background: The concept of organ donor advocacy is critical to nurses who care for potential donors in order to facilitate organ donation (OD).

Design: A retrospective cross-sectional study was employed.

The core of after death care in relation to organ donation - a grounded theory study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate how intensive and critical care nurses experience and deal with after death care i.e. the period from notification of a possible brain dead person, and thereby a possible organ donor, to the time of post-mortem farewell.

Increased resistin in brain dead organ donors is associated with delayed graft function after kidney transplantation.

Introduction: Resistin increases during several inflammatory diseases and after intracerebral bleeding or head trauma. Resistin activates the endothelium and may initiate an inflammatory response. No data are available on resistin in brain dead donors (DBD) that regularly manifest a pronounced inflammatory state.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Instrument: Attitudes Towards Organ Donor Advocacy Scale (ATODAS).

The consequences of advocacy in nursing are critical when caring for a potential organ donor. No specific instrument has been available to measure attitudes toward organ donor advocacy. The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate an instrument for measuring intensive and critical care (ICU) nurses' attitudes toward organ donor advocacy.

ICU nurses' perceptions of responsibilities and organisation in relation to organ donation--a phenomenographic study.

Objectives: According to the Istanbul declaration, health services should create better routines for identifying potential donors. A previous study involving 702 intensive and critical care (ICU) nurses revealed that only 48% trusted clinical diagnosis of brain death without a confirmatory cerebral angiography. The aim was to study ICU nurses' perceptions of their experiences of professional responsibilities and organisational aspects in relation to organ donation and how they understand and perceive brain death.

Attitudes to organ donation among Swedish ICU nurses.

Aims And Objectives: To present data on Swedish ICU nurses' attitudes to brain death and organ donation and to test a questionnaire designed to explore these issues in terms of validity and reliability.

Background: Previous studies have identified various barriers to organ donation. The single most important factor was the attitude of ICU staff.

A phenomenographic study of ICU-nurses' perceptions of and attitudes to organ donation and care of potential donors.

Unlabelled: There is a lack of organs for transplantation and the number of potential organ donors is limited. Several studies indicate that the most crucial factor is the attitude to organ donation among intensive care staff. The aim of this study was to describe intensive and critical care nurses' (ICU-nurses) perceptions of organ donation based on their experience of caring for potential organ donors.