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y been suggested that patients should be kept alive using elective ventilation to facilitate the harvesting of organs for donation. But David Shaw, Honorary Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen believes there is a much simpler way to increase the number of donated organs – by ensuring that doctors respect the wishes of the deceased and over-rule any veto. read more
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It may be unnecessary to require a second exam on a patient who is brain dead; it also prolongs the anguish for the patient's loved ones, and negatively impacts on the viability of organ donations, researchers from The North Shore L... Read Post

Organ harvesting from brain-dead patients has been called “elective ventilation.” The term gives Simon Willis pause: This kind of bureaucratic vocabulary is found in Kazuo Ishiguro’s science-fiction novel “Never Let Me Go”, where ch... Read Post

For brain dead patients, a second examination to declare death is not only unnecessary but may also have the unwanted effect of steering family members away from donating the patient's organs, according to a new study published in t... Read Post