A kidney for sale – I need the money

Czech version

Authors: Černá Pařízková Renata
Authors‘ workplace: Klinika anesteziologie, resuscitace a intenzivní medicíny, Fakultní nemocnice Hradec Králové
Published in: Anest. intenziv. Med., 25, 2014, č. 4, s. 330-336
Category: Medicine Law and Ethics

Overview

Intensive care medicine has tight connections to both sides of transplantation medicine - organ donors are usually recruited from ICU on the one hand, while on the other hand organ recipients are usually admitted to ICU after organ transplantation. The increasing gap between organ supply and the number of patients on the waiting lists has led to searching for new alternatives and ways to obtain more available organs. Transplanting one of paired organs (or part of single organ) from living donors seems to be one of the best options in terms of medical outcome and cost. The legal, ethical and economic issues of the „organ market“ are discussed in the presented paper.

Keywords:
organ donors – transplantation – ethics

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