Organ and tissues donation in Brazil: can we evolve?

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200933.1.6

Abstract

Since 1997, when Transplants Act was approved, until the present, we had some opportunities for explaining to the population legislation on
organ and tissue donation in Brazil. Additionally, we also had an important advance in this area, making possible that professionals change and improve
care practices. But still we search not only to understand the meaning of donation, in a constant change, before moral values that also change, but, over
all we search constantly to improve our assistance processes by means of the best evidences. Thus, this study is a literature survey on and a discussion
about organ and tissue donation. We found evidences that point to a worldwide trend, where the law of presumed consent is associated to the increase
of organ donation rates and that giving assistance to families during and after the donation has been an important recommendation of specialists. The
evolution of donation rates is also indirectly linked to proposals of qualifications, scientific production, events, public-private partnerships, development
of a quality system, social contribution for the legal adequacies, among others.