Organ Transplantation An Accepted Treatment Option For...

Organ transplantation is now an accepted treatment option for managing patients with irreversible failure of any of its organs. The history of the development of transplantation has been from the beginning full of ethical debates they dealt with the mutilation of the body, not less share of experimentation on human beings, even having to redefine the concept of death, giving rise to the concept of brain death . It is undeniable that many patients have benefited thanks to these procedures, increasing survival and improving their quality of life. However, we face new ethical dilemmas such as the problem of donor shortage. n the United States, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), â€Å"in 2011 3,614 transplants were performed various organs, but the current waiting list is 92,333† (Welbour). Each country has adopted a consent for donation. The countries of liberal culture, governed by explicit consent model, also known as opt-in. What it means is that each individual should have expressly indicated their willingness to donate to enter (hence opt-in) in the pool of potential donors. The presumed consent model or opt-out governs donor policies and countries like France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Lithuania and Spain, among others (Mercer). In any of these countries, just that it has not expressed a negative to be a donor. In other words: it is necessary to express that wish not to donate to exit (opt-out) the pool of potential donors. States