Medical Ethics - Consent

Question 1

What is informed consent?

Answer 1

When you let the NHS know beforehand whether you plan on donating or keeping your organs (Donor card)

Question 2

What is presumed consent?

Answer 2

When you haven’t informed the NHS that you want to opt out so they make the presumption you want your organs donated.

Question 3

What is the new law of consent in Scotland?

Answer 3

They have imposed a new soft-presumed consent system, meaning if the deceased has not expressed a wish in life to opt out, the NHS will take the organs for donation.

Question 4

What us BSD?

Answer 4

Brain Stem Death - irreversible loss of consciousness and ability to breathe on your own

Question 5

What is BHD?

Answer 5

Beating Heart Donation - when the donors heart is functioning outside the body while preserved in a special machine for transportation.

Question 6

What is NBHD?

Answer 6

Non beating heart donation - organs are retrieved and donated after the Donor has had a cardiac death.

Question 7

Moral issues in Consent?

Answer 7

Personal autonomy, supply, and medical integrity

Question 8

Moral issues in BHD/NBHD?

Answer 8

Dead Donor rule, personhood (dignity), and respect