• Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Feb 2014

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    Critical appraisal of organ procurement under Maastricht 3 condition.

    • L Puybasset, J-E Bazin, S Beloucif, P Bizouarn, S Crozier, B Devalois, B Eon, F Fieux, E Gisquet, C Guibet-Lafaye, N Kentish, A Lienhart, A Nicolas-Robin, M Otero Lopez, C Pelluchon, F Roussin, L Beydon, and Sfar (Comité d’éthique ICARE).
    • Unité de neuro-anesthésie-réanimation, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France.
    • Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2014 Feb 1; 33 (2): 120-7.

    AbstractThe ethics committee of the French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (Sfar) has been requested by the French Biomedical Agency to consider the issue of organ donation in patients after the decision to withdraw life-supportive therapies has been taken. This type of organ donation is performed in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium. The three former countries have published recommendations formalizing procedures and operations. The French Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (Société française d'anesthésie et de reanimation [Sfar]) ethics committee has considered this issue and envisioned the different aspects of the whole process. Consequently, it sounded a note of caution regarding the applicability of this type of organ procurement in unselected patients following a decision to withdraw life-supportive therapies. According to French regulations concerning organ procurement in brain-dead patients, the committee stresses the need to restrict this specific way of procurement to severely brain-injured patients, once confirmatory investigations predicting a catastrophic prognosis have been performed. This suggests that the nature of the confirmatory investigation required should be formalized by the French Biomedical Agency on behalf of the French parliamentarians, which should help preserve population trust regarding organ procurement and provide a framework for medical decision. This text has been endorsed by the Sfar. Copyright © 2013 Société française d’anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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