Meeting the Organ Donor

• Autores: Louise Wen
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 315, Nº. 11, 2016, págs. 1111-1112
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • You, young man, are assigned as my next patient. The tragic circumstances of your brain death bring us together in this moment. I am in my final year of anesthesia residency training, and yet tonight will be the first time I will provide the anesthesia care for an organ procurement. I open your electronic medical record and an unexpected window pops up: “You are about the enter the medical record of a deceased patient. Are you sure you want to proceed?” My mind balks as it tries to reconcile the contradictions … in the record, you are very much alive. I can see how fast your heart is beating, what your body temperature is, how much you have been urinating. And yet, you are technically dead.