Chapter 16 : Allocation of Resources: Scarcity and Triage
Section 5. Case Study   LIVE_DONOR_DEATH

Michael Milazzo

Case Title: LIVE_DONOR_DEATH puts program on hold

Description: Mike Hurewitz, who was 54, died three days after the surgery to give part of his liver to his 57-year-old brother at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. His brother, who needed a liver transplant to save his life, survived the transplant

Describing case:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/donor_death_expert020117.html

http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/21/ethics.matters/

http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_02/hlsa0408.htm

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyvick0530.story

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/16879.htm

Live-Donor Procedures Carry Risks, Experts Say

Ethical Positions:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_388000/388260.stm

http://www.transweb.org/reference/articles/donation/rabbi_tendler.html

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/bioethics/9905/organ.donate/template.html

http://www.unos.org/Resources/bioethics_whitepapers_convictdonors.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week539/cover.html

Name: Ginnine Roughton

Title: Kidney Buddies

Authors: Shelly Arrollo and Shannon Breshears

Description: Shelly was a 30 year old female whom in 1988 was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease called "polyarteritis nodas". With this disease the arteries and blood vessels expand and burst. Shelly was practically on her death bed. She was given her last rights and was in and out of comas for a couple of weeks. She was told she may only have a few months to live. She was flown to UCSF hospital where they new a little more about the disease. She was on dialysis for a while. When the time came her best friend Shannon was tested to see if she was a possiblel donor. On Feb. 17, 1999 Shannon underwent a donar nephrectomy. The two girls til this day are doing well.

Urls for story:

Kidney Buddies

www.kidneybuddies.com

A Kidney Recipient

http://www.kidneybuddies.com/Shellysstory.html

A Living Donor

http://www.kidneybuddies.com/Shannonsstory.html

Follow Up from Shannon-March 2002

http://www.kidneybuddies.comfollowup.html

ethical theroys urls:

www.biomedicalethics.com

American Society of Transplant Surgeons

http://www.asts.org

The Bioethics

www.thinkquest.org

Brain death and transplantatio in Japan

www.lifestudies.org

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