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  1. What does “presumed consent” might presume? Preservation measures and uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death.Pablo de Lora - 2014 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (3):403-411.
    One of the most controversial aspects in uncontrolled donation of organs after circulatory death is the initiation of preservation measures before death. I argue that in so-called opting-out systems only under very stringent conditions we might presume consent to the instauration of those measures. Given its current legal framework, I claim that this is not the case of Spain, a well-known country in which consent is presumed—albeit only formally—and where uDCD is currently practiced.
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  • Dignifying death and the morality of elective ventilation.P. De Lora & A. Perez Blanco - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (3):145-148.
    In this paper we defend that elective ventilation (EV), even if conceived as the instrument to maximise the chances of organ recovery, is mainly the means to provide the patient who is dying with a dignified death in several ways, one of them being the possibility of becoming an organ donor. Because EV does not harm the patient and permits the medical team a better assessment of the patient's clinical trajectory and a better management of the dying process by the (...)
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  • Presumed consent and organ donation.Hugh Upton - 2012 - Clinical Ethics 7 (3):142-146.
    This article explores the meaning and moral significance of presumed consent with particular reference to an opt-out policy for postmortem organ donation. It does so under two general categories: circumstances where we believe consent to have been given and those where we have no reason to believe that it has either been given or been refused. In the context of an opt-out policy, the first category would relate to the idea of tacit consent. It is argued both that substituting the (...)
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