On February 2002, he received the authorization from the Italian Ministry of Health to perform liver and kidney transplantation in humans and organ procurements in death donors.
In the present article, we briefly review the historical development of organ procurement from death-row prisoners in China and comprehensively analyze the social-political background and the legal basis of the announcement.
This protocol covers donation policy, potential donor identification and evaluation, family consent, determination of death, procurement, and special legal documents/organ distribution policy.
This knowledge may facilitate medical management, clinical leadership, guidance of parents and inform organ procurement after cardiac death.
In addition, the advent and promotion of organ procurement after cardiac death sees the specialty engaged in a controversy about its role in the management of the dying process [ 8- 10] and this also warrants a deeper understanding of the time-course of the events leading to death after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.
The size of the donor and donated organ should match the size of the recipient and the recipient's organ, and the time between pronouncement of death and procurement of the organ should be kept as short as possible.
Organ procurement from cardiac or imminent death donors, however, deviates from the practice adopted for brain-death donors.
One Administration official described the situation as a "death spiral," robbing procurement and research and development simply to operate the armed forces on a routine basis.
By eliminating the need for human donors to serve as a source of transplantable organs, most of these areas of controversy and concern about the diagnosis of brain death for organ procurement covered in the report itself would become irrelevent.
Therefore, no attempt was made to quantify the period between declaration of death and organ procurement, or to identify complications developed during this time.
