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Journal Article
Heart Transplantation and Donation After Circulatory Death in Children. A Review of the Technological, Logistical and Ethical Framework
2025
Overview
Heart transplant for adults following Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) is well established in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom (UK). Small child DCD hearts have now been recovered in the UK and internationally utilising novel technologies. Despite these recent advances, extension of this practice to pediatric cardiac transplantation has been slow and difficult despite the severe shortage of donors for children leading to a high number of deaths annually of children waiting for heart transplant. This is in direct contrast with the thriving UK programme of adult DCD heart transplant and pediatric DCD donation for non-cardiac organs. There has been insufficient action in addressing this inequality thus far. Barriers to development of a pediatric cardiac DCD programme are multifaceted: ethical concerns, technological paucity, financial and logistical hurdles. We describe the background, live issues, current developments and how we are driving resources toward a sustainable DCD programme for small children in the UK to provide valuable insights to other countries of the elements and principles at play. This is a call to responsible bodies to take urgent and achievable actions to establish an equitable paediatric DCD cardiac programme for donors, recipients and their families.
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA,Frontiers Media S.A
Subject
/ Child
/ Children
/ Death
/ donation after circulatory death (DCD)
/ Donors
/ Ethics
/ Heart Transplantation - ethics
/ Heart Transplantation - methods
/ Humans
/ pediatric heart transplantation
/ Tissue and Organ Procurement - ethics
/ Tissue and Organ Procurement - methods
/ Tissue and Organ Procurement - organization & administration
