ABSTRACT Informed consent is of paramount importance in any field of surgery, both from the ethical and the legal points of view. Concerning organ transplantation, potential recipients are fully informed before entering the waiting list. However, according to Italian law, they have to sign another informed consent form before entering the operating room. In our opinion, not only should recipients be informed of the quality of the donor and of the particular organ(s) they are going to receive, but also before entering the waiting list they should accept or refuse the future possibility of receiving an organ from a so-called marginal or extended criteria donor (ECD) and/or a non–heart-beating donor (NHBD).
LEGAL ASPECTS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN ITALY / Bruzzone, Paolo; S., Venettoni. - In: TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS. - ISSN 0041-1345. - STAMPA. - 40:6(2008), pp. 1818-1819. [10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.05.004]
LEGAL ASPECTS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN ITALY
BRUZZONE, Paolo;
2008
Abstract
ABSTRACT Informed consent is of paramount importance in any field of surgery, both from the ethical and the legal points of view. Concerning organ transplantation, potential recipients are fully informed before entering the waiting list. However, according to Italian law, they have to sign another informed consent form before entering the operating room. In our opinion, not only should recipients be informed of the quality of the donor and of the particular organ(s) they are going to receive, but also before entering the waiting list they should accept or refuse the future possibility of receiving an organ from a so-called marginal or extended criteria donor (ECD) and/or a non–heart-beating donor (NHBD).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.