Ethical considerations in organ donation and transplantation

Organ transplantation continues to be an excellent therapeutic option for p atients with end-stage organ disease. Due to advances made in immunosuppres sion, surgical techniques, and critical care management, graft and patient survival rates continue to improve. Although advances in technology have dr amatically changed in the field of organ transplantation over the last seve ral decades and complicated ethical decision-making, the fundamental ethica l principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice have not . Organ transplantation still remains a problem of supply and demand and ch allenges transplant professionals to meet society's push to find new organ donor sources.