A scoping review of the perceptions of death in the context of organ donation and transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socio-cultural perceptions surrounding death have profoundly changed since the 1950s with development of modern intensive care and progress in solid organ transplantation. Despite broad support for organ transplantation, many fundamental concepts and practices including brain death, organ donation after circulatory death, and some antemortem interventions to prepare for transplantation continue to be challenged. Attitudes toward the ethical issues surrounding death and organ donation may influence support for and participation in organ donation but differences between and among diverse populations have not been studied.

Objectives

In order to clarify attitudes toward brain death, organ donation after circulatory death and antemortem interventions in the context of

SUBMITTER: Skowronski G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8684159 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature