Winston Chiong<p>Announcing an upcoming panel on probably the most active controversy in <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/bioethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioethics</span></a> that people outside medicine (and many within) haven't heard of, <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ta</span></a>-NRP for <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/organdonation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organdonation</span></a>. (We're facing decisions about this at <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/UCSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCSF</span></a> and many other hospitals are also considering their policies.) This is a method for increasing the quantity and quality of organs available for transplantation, but which many critics believe violates the dead donor rule. In ta-NRP circulatory death of the donor is declared, after which perfusion is restored to thoracic and abdominal organs while brain perfusion is (we think) surgically prevented. Ta-NRP is performed in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France, and in some centers in the US; is contrary to guidelines in Canada, Australia, and NZ; and has been paused in Belgium and the UK pending further study. </p><p>At <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Neuroethics2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroethics2025</span></a> in Munich next month we'll host a panel, International Controversies over ta-NRP for Organ Procurement: Brain Perfusion and the Dead Donor Rule, including panelists to share key perspectives from three countries where ta-NRP has been performed, critiquing different conceptions of the role of the brain in circulatory death and how national professional and public norms affect views of this procedure: </p><ul><li>Karola Kreitmair (Univ. of Wisconsin, US) is a philosopher whose work addresses philosophical arguments regarding ta-NRP and the dead donor rule. </li><li>Amelia Hessheimer (Hosp. Univ. La Paz, Spain) is a transplant surgeon and co-author of the European Society for Organ Transplantation's consensus statement on NRP. </li><li>Alex Manara (N. Bristol NHS Trust, UK) is an intensivist and author of an influential early analysis on ta-NRP and the dead donor rule. </li></ul><p><a href="https://neuroethicssociety.org/posts/international-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neuroethicssociety.org/posts/i</span><span class="invisible">nternational-controversies-over-ta-nrp-for-organ-procurement-brain-perfusion-and-the-dead-donor-rule/</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/neuroethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroethics</span></a></p>