Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Success of organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac death and the barriers to its acceptance. | Available online http content 13 5 189 Commentary Success of organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac death and the barriers to its acceptance Bradley J Kaufman1 Stephen P Wall2 Alexander J Gilbert3 Nancy N Dubler4 and Lewis R Goldfrank2 for the New York City Uncontrolled Donation after Cardiac Death Study Group 1 Fire Department of the City of New York Brooklyn NY 11201 USA 2Department of Emergency Medicine Bellevue Hospital Center and NYU School of Medicine New York NY 10016 USA 3Division of Nephrology New York University School of Medicine New York NY 10016 USA 4Montefiore-Einstein Center For Bioethics Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx NY 10467 USA Corresponding author Bradley J Kaufman kaufmab@ Published 5 October 2009 This article is online at http content 13 5 189 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2009 13 189 doi cc8047 See related research by Fieux et al. http content 13 4 R141 Abstract It is well documented that transplants save lives and improve quality of life for patients suffering from kidney liver and heart failure. Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death UDCD is an effective and ethical alternative to existing efforts towards increasing the available pool of organs. However people who die from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are currently being denied the opportunity to be organ donors except in those few locations where out-of-hospital UDCD programs are active such as in Paris Madrid and Barcelona. Societies have the medical and moral obligation to develop UDCD programs. It is well documented that transplants save lives and improve quality of life for patients suffering from kidney liver and heart failure. But in many countries moral courage and public health policies have not kept pace with need. In a recent issue of Critical Care Fieux and colleagues 1 demonstrate remarkable results obtained through a coordinated effort to obtain viable kidneys .
