TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Organ Donation A1 - Papszycki, Brian A1 - Caruso, Vincenza A1 - Molmenti, Ernesto P A2 - Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo PY - 2023 T2 - Molmenti’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management, 2e AB - Organ and tissue donation is a relatively new intervention in the scope of medical treatment. Up until the late 1950s, there was no cure for end-stage renal disease or similar ailments such as chronic heart disease, liver failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, or any other disease that causes irreversible organ failure. Deceased and living donation, although lifesaving and in critical need across the United States, has been the subject of ethical debate over the years and is still ongoing. These discussions range from the ethics of brain death, the dead donor rule, allocation of organs, consent/autonomy, and the means of registering people to be donors on the consent registry. The goal of this chapter is to review the key ethical components of transplantation from deceased donors, specifically for the kidney and pancreas. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1194189255 ER -