BookJennifer Steel, editor.
Summary: The inadequate supply of organs in the United States and other countries continues to drive the reliance on living donor transplantation. Representatives of the transplant community convened for a meeting on living donation in an effort to provide guidelines to promote the welfare of living donors. The consensus statement that resulted from this meeting recommended that transplant centers retain an Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) to focus on the best interest of the donor. Over a decade later, nearly every transplant center in the United States, performing living donor surgeries, has incorporated an ILDA into their living donor screening and/or evaluation process, however there are no guidelines with regard to the ILDA's qualifications, clinical practice, or how address ethical challenges.
Contents:
Part I: Living Donation: Chapter 1: The Medical Selection of Live Donors,- Chapter 2: Kidney Paired Donation Programs for Incompatible Living Kidney Donors and Recipients
Chapter 3: Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Chapter 4: Intestinal Transplantation from Living Donors
Chapter 5: Living Donor Lung Transplantation
Chapter 6: Live Donor Pancreas Transplantation
Part II: Living Donor Advocacy: Chapter 7: The History of Living Donor Advocacy in Living Donor Transplantation
Chapter 8: Findings from a National Survey of Living Donor Advocates
Chapter 9: The Independent Donor Advocate and the Independent Donor Advocate Team
Chapter 10: Clasification of Living Organ Donors
Chapter 11: Unrelated Donors
Chapter 12: Education of the Donor by the ILDA (Psychosocial Aspects)
Chapter 13: Components and Timing of the ILDA Evaluation
Chapter 14: Contraindications to Living Donation from an ILDA Perspective
Chapter 15: Management of Conflict Between the Independent Living Donor Advocate and the Transplant Team
Chapter 16: Story Behind the Story
Chapter 17: Living Donor Experience
Part III: Living Donor Ethics: Chapter 18: Informed Consent for Living Organ Donation
Chapter 19: Pressure and Coercion
Chapter 20: Financial Considerations
Chapter 21: Autonomy, Agency, and Responsibility: Ethical Concerns for Living Donor Advocates
Chapter 22: A Practical Guide: Role of the Independent Living Donor Advocate: Protect or Advocate or Is It Both/And?
Chapter 23: Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplant and Living Donation
Chapter 24: The Evolution of the Role of the Independent Living Donor Advocates: Recommendations for Practice Guidelines.