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1Associate Professor David Ernest Intensive Care Specialist - Monash Health, Victoria, Australia, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor - Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Abstract:
A current inconsistency in organ donation is the ability for a family to veto a valid consent for organ donation by a deceased individual; yet the family is unable to veto a valid refusal. Reasons proposed for accepting or rejecting family veto include concerns regarding distress (individual's family vs potential recipients), impact on organ donation rates, and regard for the deceased individual's autonomy. Advance care directives (ACDs) provide an ethical and legal framework for documenting medical treatment decisions which allow an individual to provide directives and to appoint a medical treatment decision-maker to act on their behalf. I argue that consent for organ donation as an ACD under the Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 (Vic) addresses the arguments in support of family veto. This may be an effective ethical and legal framework for managing family veto to meet the needs of the individual, family and community more effectively.
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