The Ethics Issue Blocking Organ Transplant Research by Sarah Zhang. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/organ-donation-consent/536277/
1. Most transplanted organs in the United States come from ______ donors
2. (T/F) This kind of research is almost impossible to do in the United States.
3. Which consumer advocacy organization, blasted UCSF’s decision as a “disturbing failure.”?
4. Name one of the reserchers for which the reaction to their study became an object lesson in why doctors avoid this kind of research?
5. The research team wanted to see if cooling the body temperature of brain-dead could improve the function of what transplanted organ?
6. What percentage of IRB members thought the trial was human subjects research?
Possible extra questions from the article:
ReplyDelete1. Why did researches wanted to lower the temperature for dead persons body?
2. By how much did they wanted to lower it, in Fahrenheit?
3. Who is Darren Malinnovski?
4. Who is Claus Niemann?
5. Who is Alexandra Glazier?
6. What did Glazier, Feng published in 2016?
7. What was they percentage of IRB members thought the trial was human subjects research?
8. What was the percentage of transplant surgeons that agreed with that statement?
9. What was the percentage of organ procurement organization professionals that agreed with that statement?
10. What did Sandy, Feng stated about this research?
11. Who is Douglas Hanto?
12. What did he stated about usage of carbon monoxide?
13. Does low doses of carbon monoxide improve kidney function or not?
14. Did they ever tested on humans?
15. Who is Scott Halpern?
16. Did cooling the human body actually improve kidney transplant?
17. After transplant success, what did they wanted to do?
18. Based on the previous question response(17). Did they do it?
19. Based on the previous question response(18). What was the reason of that action?
20. Did UCSF eventually gave them a green light for the procedure?
Answers for Kimi's Questions:
Delete1. to improve the function of transplanted kidneys
2. 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit
3. A doctor who participated during this study
4. Malinovski's co-investigator
5. president and CEO of New England Donor Services
6. the results of a survey of transplant surgeons, institutional review board (IRB) members, and organ procurement organization professionals
7. 82%
8. 58%
9. 19%
10. It gets shut down because everybody understands there is no pathway to doing this research
11. a transplant surgeon at VA St. Louis Health-Care System
12. it improves kidney transplants
13. Yes it does
14. No
15. a doctor and bioethicist at University of Pennsylvania.
16. Yes it did
17. they wanted to compare it to an alternative technique that uses a machine to pump liquid through the kidney outside the body
18. No
19. When there’s controversy, people don’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole,” says Malinoski. “It really set our study back over a year, year and a half".
20. Yes