Consent in Surgery

Informed consent for brain surgery.

Multidisciplinary approach to consent in arthroplasty surgery.

The process of consenting has been in the heart of the surgical practice as the binding contract between the informed patient and the entrusted treating surgeon. This is to protect the patient’s autonomy and respect their right to determine their treatment. Consent validity relies on the provision of procedure information and the capacity of competent patient to understand it 1 . The Irish la...

Informed consent for penile prosthesis surgery

Patient education and informed consent in head and neck surgery.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of an educational intervention, in the form of printed material, on patient knowledge and recall of possible risks from parotidectomy or thyroidectomy. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, controlled study conducted during a 9-month period. SETTING Head and neck surgery clinic of an academic tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS One hundred twenty-five consecutive p...

An audit on consent- risk disclosure in thoracic surgery

Background/Introduction The law on consent is continuously evolving as there is no statue in British law relating to consent. Instead this relies on common or case law. The recent case of Montgomery vs NHS Lanarkshire has change the consent law with relation to the disclosure of information. It is now recommended that we as surgeons should disclose risks that an average patient would want to kn...