title: Pediatric Deceased Donation-A Report of the Transplantation Society Meeting in Geneva.
abstract: The Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society convened a meeting on pediatric deceased donation of organs in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 21 to 22, 2014. Thirty-four participants from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Europe, and North and South America explored the practical and ethical issues pertaining to pediatric deceased donation and developed recommendations for policy and practice. Their expertise was inclusive of pediatric intensive care, internal medicine, and surgery, nursing, ethics, organ donation and procurement, psychology, law, and sociology. The report of the meeting advocates the routine provision of opportunities for deceased donation by pediatric patients and conveys an international call for the development of evidence-based resources needed to inform provision of best practice care in deceased donation for neonates and children.
authors.affiliation: 1 Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. 3 University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. 4 Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Robina, QLD, Australia. 5 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, United Kingdom. 6 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium. 7 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, MA. 8 Division of Transplant Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. 9 Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 10 Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, Madrid, Spain. 11 David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 12 Department of Pediatrics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 13 UCL Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Campus, London, United Kingdom. 14 Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, SIUT, Karachi, Pakistan. 15 Ethics Committee, The Transplantation Society, Montreal, QC, Canada. 16 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Dominique E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Marion J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Siebelink
authors.forename: Katrina A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Bramstedt
authors.forename: Joe
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authors.lastname: Brierley
authors.forename: Fabienne
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authors.lastname: Dobbels
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rodrigue
authors.forename: Minnie
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authors.lastname: Sarwal
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dominguez-Gil
authors.forename: Gabriel
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authors.lastname: Danovitch
authors.forename: Stuart C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Sweet
authors.forename: Richard S
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authors.lastname: Trompeter
authors.forename: Farhat
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authors.lastname: Moazam
authors.forename: Michael A
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authors.lastname: Bos
authors.forename: Francis L
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authors.lastname: Delmonico
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D032921:Consensus; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000941:ethics / Q000592:standards*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000941:ethics / Q000600:supply & distribution*