(M) L3.1: RA 7170 - Organ Donation Act of 1991 Flashcards
RA 7170 was approved on what date?
January 7, 1992
When did RA 7170 take effect?
15 days after publication
What is the full title of RA 7170?
An Act Authorizing the Legacy or Donation of All or Part of the Human Body After Death for Specified Purposes
Definition of Terms:
A facility that is licensed, accredited, or approved under the law for storage of human bodies or parts thereof
Organ Bank Storage Facility
Definition of Terms:
A deceased individual including still-born infants/fetuses
Decedent
Definition of Terms:
An individual who makes a legacy of all or parts of their body
Testator
Definition of Terms:
An individual authorized under this act to donate all or part of the body of a decedent
Donor
Definition of Terms:
A facility that is licensed, accredited, or approved under the law including those operated by the government
Hospital
Definition of Terms:
Includes transplantable organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, and other fluids and portions of the human body
Part
Definition of Terms:
An individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, association, the Government or any of its subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities, including government-owned/controlled corporations, or any other legal entity
Person
Definition of Terms:
A person licensed or authorized to practice medicine under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines
Physician/Surgeon
Definition of Terms:
People enumerated in SECTION 4(A) of this act
Immediate Family of the Decedent
Definition of Terms:
The irreversible cessation of circulatory, respiratory, and/or neurological functions (including the brain stem)
Death
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of _________, based on acceptable standards of medical practice, there is an absence of natural respiratory and cardiac functions and attempts at resuscitation would not be successful
Attending physician
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of the attending physician, based on acceptable standards of medical practice, there is an absence of what natural functions?
Respiratory and Cardiac
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of the attending physician, based on acceptable standards of medical practice, there is an absence of natural respiratory and cardiac functions and attempts at _________ would not be successful
Resuscitation
In accordance with the opinion of the attending physician, death shall be deemed to have occurred at the same time as what?
Natural respiratory and cardiac functions ceased
Whose opinion is based on the absence of natural respiratory and cardiac functions?
ATTENDING physician
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of _________, concurred by the other physician, there is an irreversible cessation of all brain functions and where resuscitation or continued supportive maintenance would not be successful
Consulting Physician
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of the consulting physician, concurred by the other physician, there is an irreversible cessation of all ______ functions and where resuscitation or continued supportive maintenance would not be successful
Brain
A person shall be medically and legally dead if in the opinion of the consulting physician, concurred by the other physician, there is an irreversible cessation of all brain functions and where resuscitation or __________________ would not be successful
Continued Supportive Maintenance
Whose opinion is based on the irreversible cessation of all brain functions?
Consulting Physician
In accordance with the opinion of the consulting physician, death shall be deemed to have occurred at the time of?
When the conditions first appeared (cessation of brain function)
Determining the death of an individual shall be diagnosed by how many physicians?
2
Determining the death of an individual shall be diagnosed by 2 physicians who are?
The Attending and Consulting Physicians
The patient’s death shall be recorded where?
In their medical record
A person must be at least how many years of age in order to file and execute a legacy to donate?
18 years old
What are the ff. conditions for a person to donate/execute a legacy?
1.) any individual
2.) must be at least 18 years of age
3.) of sound mind
T or F: A loved one may execute a donation of organs even with contrary intentions by the decedent
False (cannot; if patient does not consent, it cannot proceed)
T or F: A loved one may not execute a donation of organs if there is a notice of opposition from an immediate family member of the decedent
True (if family members do not consent, it cannot proceed)
Give the order of priority for the people who can execute a donation of organs from the decedent
- Spouse
- Son/daughter of legal age
- Either parents
- Brother/sister of legal age
- Guardian at the time of death
T or F: Children of minor age of the decedent can file and execute a donation
False (children must be of legal age)
T or F: Siblings of minor age of the decedent can file and execute a donation
False (siblings must be of legal age)
The people authorized to file/execute a donation shall make the donation when?
After or immediately before death