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Volume 359:669-671 August 14, 2008 Number 7 Next

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	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Perspective Roundtable Editorial by Curfman, G. D. Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear Related Article by Boucek, M. M. PubMed Citation

Organ Donation after Cardiac Death

In this issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. (pages 709–714) report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. The three Perspective articles and a video roundtable discussion at www.nejm.org address key ethical aspects of organ donation after cardiac death. Bernat and Veatch comment on the cases described by Boucek et al.; Truog and Miller raise a fundamental question about the dead donor rule. In a related Perspective roundtable, moderator Atul Gawande, of Harvard Medical School, is joined by George Annas, of the Boston . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dr. Bernat is a professor of neurology and medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH.

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