Tortosa Jean-Christophe, Rodríguez-Arias Vailhen David, Moutel Grégoire
Laboratoire d'éthique médicale et de médecine légale, Université Paris Descartes, Centre universitaire des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France.
Med Sci (Paris). 2010 Feb;26(2):209-13. doi: 10.1051/medsci/2010262209.
France, Spain and US are three leader countries in activity of organ procurement and transplantation. Donation after cardiac death is one of the strategies they have been implemented in order to face organ shortage. Donation after cardiac death is internationally considered to be an encouraging source of organs for transplantation both because of its capacity to significantly increase the donor pool and because of the quality of the organs obtained from non-heart-beating organ donors. These protocols give rise to important ethical issues that have been widely discussed in the international literature. The aim of this paper is to identify and discuss the ethical issues that these protocols raise in these three countries.
法国、西班牙和美国是器官获取与移植活动中的三个领先国家。心脏死亡后捐赠是它们为应对器官短缺而实施的策略之一。心脏死亡后捐赠在国际上被视为一种令人鼓舞的移植器官来源，这既是因为它有能力显著增加供体库，也是因为从非心跳器官供体获取的器官质量。这些方案引发了重要的伦理问题，国际文献对此已进行了广泛讨论。本文旨在识别并讨论这些方案在这三个国家所引发的伦理问题。
