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Appendix C: Workshop Participants
Pages 98-101

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... Education is in progress for intensive care staff, social services, neurosurgery, the medical examiner, and the media. Francis Delmonico, M.D., New England Organ Bank (independent OPO)
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... Protocol development took 18 months of weekly meetings of both an ethics group, which dealt with the ethical issues of patient care at the end of life, and a procedural group, which set standards for withdrawing support, determining death, and auditing compliance. The protocol was approved by nursing, anesthesia, critical care, and medical personnel, and by a joint committee of hospital administrators, physicians, and board members.
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... Jacqueline Sullivan, R.N., Ph.D., Neurosurgery Intensive Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia Critical care nurses are strategically involved in non-heart-beating organ donation. Critical care nursing priorities include consensus and consistency in protocols, and nursing education and preparation.
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... Louise Jacobbi, C.P.T.C., Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency The Louisiana OPO has not undertaken non-heart-beating donation because of several unresolved concerns: resources for OPO and hospital education, staff time, equipment, and limited outcome data. There is an urgent need for followup studies on costs, organ discard rates, transplant outcomes, impact on OPO and hospital staff, and effect on family consent.
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