Select Committee on European Union Minutes of Evidence


Further supplementary memorandum by Sir Liam Donaldson

INTENSIVE CARE SOCIETY

GUIDELINES FOR ADULT ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION

  Prepared on behalf of the Intensive Care Society by the Society's Working Group on Organ and Tissue Donation.

CONTENTS

  1.  Basic organisation

  2.  Criteria for organ donation

  3.  Approaching the family

  4.  Certification of death by brain stem testing

  5.  Clinical management of the potential heart beating organ donor

  6.  Controlled non heart beating organ donation

  7.  Last offices and follow-up

  8.  Revision date

  9.  Members of the Intensive Care Society's Working Group on Organ Donation

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

  The Society gratefully acknowledges funding from UK Transplant. This funding covered the travelling and other expenses involved with the meetings of the working group.

  The Guidelines in full can be found at http://www.ics.ac.uk/icmprof/downloads/Organ%20&%20Tissue %20Donation.pdf






 
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