Entscheidungshilfe bei erweitertem intensivmedizinischem Behandlungsbedarf auf dem Weg zur Organspende. Positionspapier der Sektion Ethik und der Sektion Organspende und -transplantation der Deutschen Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin (DIVI) unter Mitarbeit der Sektion Ethik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internistische Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin (DGIIN)

Neitzke, G.; Rogge, A.; Luecking, K. M.; Böll, B.; Burchardi, H.; Dannenberg, K.; Duttge, G.; Dutzmann, J.; Erchinger, R.; Gretenkort, P.; Hartog, C.; Joebges, S.; Knochel, K.; Liebig, M.; Meier, S.; Michalsen, A.; Michels, G.; Mohr, M.; Nauck, F.; Salomon, F.; Seidlein, A. -H.; Soeffker, G.; Stopfkuchen, H. und Janssens, U. (2019): Entscheidungshilfe bei erweitertem intensivmedizinischem Behandlungsbedarf auf dem Weg zur Organspende. Positionspapier der Sektion Ethik und der Sektion Organspende und -transplantation der Deutschen Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin (DIVI) unter Mitarbeit der Sektion Ethik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internistische Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin (DGIIN). In: Medizinische Klinik-Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, Bd. 114, Nr. 4: S. 319-326

Abstract

Background and challengeInjuries, especially traumatic brain injury, or specific illnesses and their respective sequelae can result in the demise of the patients afflicted despite all efforts of modern intensive care medicine. If in principle organ donation is an option after apatient's death, intensive therapeutic measures are regularly required in order to maintain the homeostasis of the organs. These measures, however, cannot benefit the patient afflicted anymorewhich in turn might lead to an ethical conflict between dignified palliative care for him/her and expanded intensive treatment to facilitate organ donation for others, especially if the patient has opted for the limitation of life-sustaining therapies in an advance directive.MethodThe Ethics Section and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Section of the German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) have convened several meetings and atelephone conference and have arrived at adecision-making aid as to the extent of treatment for potential organ donors. This instrument focusses first on the assessment of five individual dimensions regarding organ donation, namely the certitude of acomplete and irreversible loss of all brain function, the patient's wishes as to organ donation, his or her wishes as to limiting life-sustaining therapies, the intensity of expanded intensive treatment for organ protection and the odds of its successful attainment. Then, the combination of the individual assessments, as graphically shown in a{Netzdiagramm}, will allow for ajudgement as to whether acontinuation or possibly an expansion of intensive care measures is ethically justified, questionable or even inappropriate.ResultThe aid described can help mitigate ethical conflicts as to the extent of intensive care treatment for moribund patients, when organ donation is amedically sound option.NoteGerald Neitzke und Annette Rogge contributed equally to this paper and should be considered co-first authors.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 2193-6218
• Sprache: Deutsch