HLTH3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Organ Donation, Brain Death, Byron White
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Living donation - a person donates, during life, a non essential organ such as a kidney or bone marrow. Often this is a "directed donation" where the donor knows the recipient, usually as a family member. A child can be a living donor of regenerative tissue provided a parent consents in writing and the nature and effect of the procedure is explained to, and understood by the child: reader ss. 12b, 12c, 12d, and 12e of the transplantation act. A child can never be a donor of non-regenerative tissue in qld. The parents written consent must be signed in the presence of the doctor and thereafter certified by a doctor or the hospitals authorised officer. Deceased donation - where human tissue is "harvested" following death of a person. Two criteria determining death, refer:s. 45 of the transplantation act. Irreversible cessation of neurological function - "brain death" In queensland, the child"s donation must be to a parent or a sibling.
