Book contents
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Section 1 Resuscitation and Management of the Acutely Ill Patient
- Section 2 Diagnosis, Assessment, Investigation, Monitoring and Data Interpretation
- Domain 3 Disease Management: Recognition, Causes and Management
- Section 4 Therapeutic Interventions and Organ Support
- Domain 5 Practical Procedures
- Section 6 Perioperative Care
- Section 7 Comfort and Recovery
- Section 8 End-of-Life Care
- Introduction
- Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment
- Presumption in Favour of Prolonging Life
- Decisions Need to Be Informed by Multidisciplinary Team Assessment
- Put Patients at the Heart of the Decision-Making Process
- When a Treatment Is Deemed to Clearly Offer no ‘Clinical Benefit’
- When the Overall Benefit of a Treatment Is Less Clear
- Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
- Disagreement
- Care of the Patient during Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Introduction
- Treat Your Patient as an Individual
- Capacity
- Confidentiality
- Rapport
- Know All the Relevant Information
- Optimise the Setting
- What Does the Patient Already Know?
- What Does the Patient Want to Know?
- Warning Shot
- Speak Honestly and Directly
- Allow the Expression of Emotions
- Listen to Concerns and Answer Questions
- Agree New Goals
- Summarise
- Pitfalls to Avoid
- Tricky Cases
- Introduction
- ‘Good Death’
- Recognising the Dying Patient
- The Decision-Making Process
- Decisions and Care at the End of Life
- Recognising Symptoms
- Involving Family Members
- Religion and Spirituality
- Communication
- Definition of Death
- The Personnel
- Brainstem Reflexes
- The Apnoea Test
- Ancillary Tests
- Introduction
- Pathophysiological Changes after Brainstem Death
- Stabilisation of a Brain-Dead Donor to Optimise Organ Function
- General Management
- Introduction
- Controlled and Uncontrolled Donations
- The Process of Controlled DCD
- Ischaemia Times
- Patients from Emergency Department
- 8.1 How to Manage the Process of Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment with the Multidisciplinary Team
- 8.2 How to Discuss End-of-Life Care with Patients and Their Families/Surrogates
- 8.3 Managing Palliative Care of the Critically Ill Patient
- 8.4 Brainstem Death Testing
- 8.5 Physiological Support of the Organ Donor
- 8.6 Management of Organ Donation Following Circulatory Death
- Section 9 Paediatric Care
- Section 10 Transport
- Section 11 Professionalism, Patient Safety, Governance and Health Systems Management
- Index
- References
8.6 - Management of Organ Donation Following Circulatory Death
from Section 8 - End-of-Life Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
Book contents
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Section 1 Resuscitation and Management of the Acutely Ill Patient
- Section 2 Diagnosis, Assessment, Investigation, Monitoring and Data Interpretation
- Domain 3 Disease Management: Recognition, Causes and Management
- Section 4 Therapeutic Interventions and Organ Support
- Domain 5 Practical Procedures
- Section 6 Perioperative Care
- Section 7 Comfort and Recovery
- Section 8 End-of-Life Care
- Introduction
- Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment
- Presumption in Favour of Prolonging Life
- Decisions Need to Be Informed by Multidisciplinary Team Assessment
- Put Patients at the Heart of the Decision-Making Process
- When a Treatment Is Deemed to Clearly Offer no ‘Clinical Benefit’
- When the Overall Benefit of a Treatment Is Less Clear
- Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
- Disagreement
- Care of the Patient during Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Introduction
- Treat Your Patient as an Individual
- Capacity
- Confidentiality
- Rapport
- Know All the Relevant Information
- Optimise the Setting
- What Does the Patient Already Know?
- What Does the Patient Want to Know?
- Warning Shot
- Speak Honestly and Directly
- Allow the Expression of Emotions
- Listen to Concerns and Answer Questions
- Agree New Goals
- Summarise
- Pitfalls to Avoid
- Tricky Cases
- Introduction
- ‘Good Death’
- Recognising the Dying Patient
- The Decision-Making Process
- Decisions and Care at the End of Life
- Recognising Symptoms
- Involving Family Members
- Religion and Spirituality
- Communication
- Definition of Death
- The Personnel
- Brainstem Reflexes
- The Apnoea Test
- Ancillary Tests
- Introduction
- Pathophysiological Changes after Brainstem Death
- Stabilisation of a Brain-Dead Donor to Optimise Organ Function
- General Management
- Introduction
- Controlled and Uncontrolled Donations
- The Process of Controlled DCD
- Ischaemia Times
- Patients from Emergency Department
- 8.1 How to Manage the Process of Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment with the Multidisciplinary Team
- 8.2 How to Discuss End-of-Life Care with Patients and Their Families/Surrogates
- 8.3 Managing Palliative Care of the Critically Ill Patient
- 8.4 Brainstem Death Testing
- 8.5 Physiological Support of the Organ Donor
- 8.6 Management of Organ Donation Following Circulatory Death
- Section 9 Paediatric Care
- Section 10 Transport
- Section 11 Professionalism, Patient Safety, Governance and Health Systems Management
- Index
- References
Summary
Key Learning Points
1. Controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) follows a planned withdrawal of care.
2. The organ donation team should not be involved in treatment withdrawal decisions.
3. Critical pathways for DCD have been outlined by the World Health Organization.
4. Donation must never cause death of the patient.
5. After the death, interventions likely to restore cerebral circulation should not be undertaken.
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- Information
- Intensive Care MedicineThe Essential Guide, pp. 686 - 688Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
References and Further Reading
Department of Health, Intensive Care Society, NHS Blood and Transplant, British Transplantation Society. Donation after circulatory death. Report of a consensus meeting. London: Department of Health; 2010.Google Scholar
Dunne, K, Doherty, P. Donation after circulatory death. Contin Educ Anaesth Crit Care Pain 2011;11:82–6.Google Scholar
Kotloff, RM, Blosser, S, Fulda, GJ, et al. Management of the potential organ donor in the ICU: Society of Critical Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/Association of Organ Procurement Organizations Consensus Statement. Crit Care Med 2015;43:1291–325.Google Scholar
Manara, AR, Murphy, PG, Ocallaghan, G. Donation after circulatory death. Br J Anaesth 2012;108(Suppl 1):i108–21.Google Scholar
Working Party of The British Transplantation Society. 2013. Transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death. bts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/15_BTS_Donors_DCD-1.pdfGoogle Scholar