Professional Education
Professional Education Videos:
Thinking about Consent and Procurement in Organ Donation: Some Lingering Issues in the Areas of Ethics, The Law and Public Perception. Organ Donation Conference held on April 11, 2011.
Segment 1 - Presumed Consent
Ought we, as a nation, to
adopt a policy of "presumed consent" in which one is born a donor by
default (and therefore would have to opt out of this status), as is the case in
Europe, or a nation of "individual consent," in which one has to go
out of one's way to opt into the system, as is currently the case in the USA?
Segment 2 - Individual Consent and Family Resistance
What ought we to do when the wishes of a
prospective donor, who has given his or her consent to donate, are not accepted
by that donor's family? What are the ethical, legal, and public perception
issues involved in refusing that donor's explicit wishes?
Segment 3 - Organ Donation by Cardiac Death
Are DCD ("Donation after
Cardiac Death") cases of organ donation medically acceptable? The standard
kind of organ donation case occurs in cases of brain death, but at Stony Brook
we are also required to report when there are eligible donors who die of
non-brain related sicknesses or injuries. Yet, many physicians, here and
elsewhere, feel uncomfortable with this legal directive because they question
whether and under what circumstances these sorts of patients/donors are in the
first place declared dead in advance
of recovering their organs. What, as a society, ought we to do about DCD?
Participants/Speakers
ANDREW FLESCHER, PHD (moderator), Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics and Medical Humanities, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center
MICHAEL VETRANO, PHD, Associate Course Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Stony Brook University Medical Center
KENNETH PRAGER, MD, FACP, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine; Director, Clinical Ethics; Chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, Columbia University Medical Center
CHRISTINA STRONG, ESQ., Attorney of Healthcare Law and Policy, Joint Organ Donation Task Force
MARC J. SHAPIRO, MD, Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Burns, Assistant Chief Quality Officer, Stony Brook University Hospital
DANA LUSTBADER, MD, Section Head of Palliative Medicine, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
DANIEL SLONIEWSKY, MD, Pediatrician, Stony Brook University Hospital
