Abstract

GAMEZ RICARDO, Juan Carlos et al. Donors' shortage: ethical and social implications in the renal transplant. ccm [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.4, pp. 1051-1064. ISSN 1560-4381.

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.

Keywords : renal transplant; donor; brain deat.

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