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Perspective Roundtable: Organ Donation after Cardiac Death In the August 14, 2008 issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. Moderator Atul Gawande, of Harvard Medical School; George Annas, of the Boston University School of Public Health; Arthur Caplan, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Robert Truog, of Harvard Medical School discuss key ethical aspects of organ donation after cardiac death. 1. Introduction 2. Criteria for Death 3. Dying vs. Dead 4. Rethinking the Dead Donor Rule 5. Public Trust 6. Consent and Prognosis 7. Conclusions

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