Informed consent for whole blood donation

Live Kidney Donation: Informed Consent Related Aspects

background Informed consent in live donor nephrectomy is a topic of great interest. Safety and transparency are key items, getting increasingly more attention from media and healthcare inspection. Since live donors are not patients, but healthy individuals undergoing elective interventions, they justly insist on optimal conditions and guaranteed safety. Although transplant professionals agree c...

Gaining informed consent for blood transfusion.

Transfusion of blood and blood products is a common procedure that has significant benefits but is also associated with serious risks. Patients needing blood transfusion require full information on these benefits and risks in order to make informed consent. This article, the first in a five-part series, discusses the process of gaining consent and resources available to support patients and hea...

Increasing consent for organ donation: mandated choice, individual autonomy, and informed consent.

Donation of eggs in assisted reproduction and informed consent.

In Spain, there exists an increasing amount of advertising for the donation of eggs for assisted reproduction. This study attempts to assess: (1) scientific evidence available about adverse effects of egg donation; (2) characteristics of the information given in the informed consent to donors; and (3) the legality of this advertising. The main results are: (1) Many severe problems are associate...

Consent for organ donation.

Improving the consent rate for solid organ donation from deceased donors is a key component of strategies in the UK and other countries to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. In the UK, the law is currently clear on what forms consent may take, with the views of the individual expressed previously in life taking priority. Such views may have been expressed prospectively, vi...