Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation

Introduction - Rodríguez-Arias, Greenberg, and Goldberg.- 1.0 Living Donation.- 1.1 Minors as organ donors - Freedman Ross, Parker and Thistelwaite.- 1.2 Living donors for fulminant hepatic failure in children - Segedi and Grant.- 1.3 The Ethics of Persuasion: Evaluating the ethical limits on attempting to persuade families to donate the organs of deceased family members - Chandler and Gruben.- 1.4 Misattributed Paternity - Freeman and Parker.- 2.0 Deceased Donation.- 2.1 Death determination in children - Shemie and Ortega-Deballon.- 2.2 Controlled donation after cardiac death (2 chapters).- 2.2.1 Controlled donation after cardiac death in pediatrics - Talati and Frader.- 2.2.2 Ethical and organizational challenges in controlled donation after cardiac death for children - Harrison.- 3.0 Emerging Technology.- 3.1 Ethical issues in pediatric bowel rehabilitation and small bowel transplantation - Fecteau.- 3.2 Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) - Zlotnik Shaul, Wright, Flynn, Borschel, Hanson, and Zuker.- 3.3 Media management - Amaral and Feudtner.- 4.0 Allocating Organs.- 4.1Transplantation for pediatric foreign nationals - Fortin and Greenberg.- 4.2 Neurodevelopmental status as a criterion for solid organ transplant eligibility - Wightman, Diekema and Smith.- 5.0 Recipient Issues.- 5.1 Psychosocial aspects of pediatric organ transplantation - Derrington, Goldberg and Frader.- 5.2 Ethical issues in adolescents and transplantation - Goldberg and Fine.- Conclusion - Rodríguez-Arias, Greenberg, Goldberg.