Donors shortage: ethical and social implications in the renal transplant

Juan Carlos Gámez Ricardo; Guillermo Pupo Zaldivar; Roberto Cruz Mayo; Yaniel Pérez Cedeño; Marina García Mederos

2017, Number 4

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Correo Científico Médico 2017; 21 (4)

Donors' shortage: ethical and social implications in the renal transplant

Gámez RJC, Pupo ZG, Cruz MR, Pérez CY, García MM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: with the emergence of the trasplantology, the term of voluntary donating of organs and tissues it was more emphatic. In the Declaration of Helsinki the ethical principles settled down for the medical investigations in human beings.
Objective: to demonstrate that the application of organs for transplant is a necessity and it is accepted ethically.
Method: a cross-sectional study carried out in patients assisted in intensive care unit of the Hospital Lucía Íñiguez Landín in 2014 and 2015 with the purpose of identifying possible donors and the real donors.
Results: of 149 patients with Glasgow smaller than 8, only 30 (20.1%) finished with diagnostic of brain death, 16 (53.3%) had contraindication to be donating, contributing 9 (30%) real donors.
Conclusions: the rate of family negative was of 16.7%. The efforts are not even enough, the number of obtained organs doesn't allow all the patients that require it to transplant.