Samantha Hildebrand's List: Organ Donations

• The ideal

   

  process for obtaining donor organs includes

   

  death defined by brain criteria, grief counseling, a

   

  decoupled approach to the potential donor’s family in

   

  which informing the family of the potential donor’s

   

  death is temporally separated from presenting them

   

  with the option of organ donation, and the use of

   

  organ procurement specialists or representatives of the

   

  regional organ procurement organization (OPO)
• 1. the skill of balancing prognostic ambiguity

   

  with preserving the potential for organ donation and

   

  procurement,

   

  2. the difficulty of making the shift to prognosti
• certainty without making a complete commitment to

   

  organ procurement, and

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