Ethical Significance of Extracorporeal Circulation Membrane Oxygenation Application in Donation Organ Transplantation / 中国医学伦理学
Chinese Medical Ethics
; (6): 741-744, 2015.
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in Chinese
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ABSTRACT
Objective:
To investigate the ethical significance of the extracorporeal circulation membrane oxy-genation ( ECMO) in the donation organ transplantation .Methods:
Analyzing the data of ECMO protected to the organ in 13 donors after brain death , Accounting the rising costs which caused by ECMO and make the interview to the patients and family members .Results:
In the period of ECMO flow , the hemodynamic of the DBD donors be-come stable gradually , the medications reduced significantly or stop , the function of organs was restored .There were 38 organs can be used for the transplantation which were proven by the pathological biopsy .Twenty six kid-neys were transplanted to 26 recipients and liver transplantation was performed in 12 recipients.All transplantations were successfully completed .Medical cost of this patients increase 5.3%, all of the family members and patients can accept the intervention of ECMO .Conclusion:
ECMO is an effective method to protect and improve the utili-zation rate of the organ .the improvement of the related technical standards , legal, laws and ethics of staff will pro-mote to the development of organ transplantation .
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Aspects:
Ethical aspects
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Medical Ethics
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article