Neitzke, G., Rogge, A., Luecking, K. M., Boell, B., Burchardi, H., Dannenberg, K., Duttge, G., Dutzmann, J., Erchinger, R., Gretenkort, P., Hartog, C., Joebges, S., Knochel, K., Liebig, M., Meier, S., Michalsen, A., Michels, G., Mohr, M., Nauck, F., Salomon, F., Seidlein, A. -H., Soeffker, G., Stopfkuchen, H. and Janssens, U. (2019). Decision-making support in Intensive Care to facilitate organ donation. Position paper of the Ethics Section and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) in collaboration with the Ethics Section of the German Society of Medical Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN). Med. Klin.-Intensivmed Notfallmed., 114 (4). S. 319 - 327. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. ISSN 2193-6226

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Abstract

Background and challengeInjuries, especially traumatic brain injury, or specific illnesses and their respective sequelae can result in the demise of the patients afflicted despite all efforts of modern intensive care medicine. If in principle organ donation is an option after apatient's death, intensive therapeutic measures are regularly required in order to maintain the homeostasis of the organs. These measures, however, cannot benefit the patient afflicted anymorewhich in turn might lead to an ethical conflict between dignified palliative care for him/her and expanded intensive treatment to facilitate organ donation for others, especially if the patient has opted for the limitation of life-sustaining therapies in an advance directive.MethodThe Ethics Section and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) have convened several meetings and atelephone conference and have arrived at adecision-making aid as to the extent of treatment for potential organ donors. This instrument focusses first on the assessment of five individual dimensions regarding organ donation, namely the certitude of acomplete and irreversible loss of all brain function, the patient's wishes as to organ donation, his or her wishes as to limiting life-sustaining therapies, the intensity of expanded intensive treatment for organ protection and the odds of its successful attainment. Then, the combination of the individual assessments, as graphically shown in a{Netzdiagramm}, will allow for ajudgement as to whether acontinuation or possibly an expansion of intensive care measures is ethically justified, questionable or even inappropriate.ResultThe aid described can help mitigate ethical conflicts as to the extent of intensive care treatment for moribund patients, when organ donation is amedically sound option.NoteGerald Neitzke und Annette Rogge contributed equally to this paper and should be considered co-first authors.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
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Neitzke, G.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Rogge, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Luecking, K. M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Boell, B.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Burchardi, H.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dannenberg, K.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Duttge, G.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dutzmann, J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Erchinger, R.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Gretenkort, P.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Hartog, C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Joebges, S.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Knochel, K.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Liebig, M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Meier, S.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Michalsen, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Michels, G.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Mohr, M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Nauck, F.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Salomon, F.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Seidlein, A. -H.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Soeffker, G.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Stopfkuchen, H.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Janssens, U.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-149665
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-019-0578-3
Journal or Publication Title: Med. Klin.-Intensivmed Notfallmed.
Volume: 114
Number: 4
Page Range: S. 319 - 327
Date: 2019
Publisher: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication: HEIDELBERG
ISSN: 2193-6226
Language: German
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
Medicine, General & InternalMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14966

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