Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Committee on Hospital Care, Section on Surgery, and Section on Critical Care

Titel

Policy statement--pediatric organ donation and transplantation

Ist Teil von

• Pediatrics (Evanston), 2010-04, Vol.125 (4), p.822

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Pediatric organ donation and organ transplantation can have a significant life-extending benefit to the young recipients of these organs and a high emotional impact on donor and recipient families. Pediatricians, pediatric medical specialists, and pediatric transplant surgeons need to be better acquainted with evolving national strategies that involve organ procurement and organ transplantation to help acquaint families with the benefits and risks of organ donation and transplantation. Efforts of pediatric professionals are needed to shape public policies to provide a system in which procurement, distribution, and cost are fair and equitable to children and adults. Major issues of concern are availability of and access to donor organs; oversight and control of the process; pediatric medical and surgical consultation and continued care throughout the organ-donation and transplantation process; ethical, social, financial, and follow-up issues; insurance-coverage issues; and public awareness of the need for organ donors of all ages.