Ethical Problems in the Clinical Application of Living-donor Renal Transplantation in China / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Ethics -related issues are the main problems encountered in living- donor renal transplantation in China.The most important ethical problems are informed fact,voluntary decision and informed consent for donors and recipients.Three problems need to be determined including content and limitation of informed fact,judgment of intellectual ability of the donor and recipient sides,and voluntary consent. Flexible principles and countermeasures should be well employed in different and comphcated clinical cases.For example,people with intellectual or mental disability and minors are not permitted to be donor in order to protect their legal rights and benefits.To draw a conclusion,it's necessary to give ethical interfere,legal control and social supervision to living -donor renal transplantation.The key - point of social and ethical interfere is to enhance the sense of socio - ethical responsibility among medial staffs.Hospital ethics committee should play their expected role in clinical application.