The Liver Meeting 2019-Allocation for Optimizing Long-term Outcomes in Children

Allocation for Optimizing Long-term Outcomes in Children

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The speaker emphasizes the importance of prioritizing children for liver transplants based on ethical justifications and societal benefits. They discuss the challenges children face in receiving transplants and the discrepancies in allocation policies leading to pediatric waitlist mortality. The speaker advocates for prioritizing children without significantly impacting adults, highlighting the superior long-term outcomes for pediatric recipients. They compare global practices that prioritize children and advocate for mandatory organ splitting to improve pediatric outcomes. The speaker stresses the need to address disparity in pediatric transplantation and advocates for systemic changes to save more children's lives. Their work aims to ensure fair and equitable access to life-saving liver transplants for children, emphasizing the ethical obligation to protect and prioritize the most vulnerable patients.

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Presenter: Evelyn K. Hsu

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children

liver transplants

prioritization

ethical justifications

pediatric transplantation