The Ethics Issue Blocking Organ Transplant Research

Doctors around the world rightly believe that the organs of a dead patient can be transferred to someone in need. Someone, whose brain death has occurred, but still breathing artificially, can donate their organs wishfully. This is a humble approach on the behalf of the panel of surgeons - that can save hundreds of lives.

What is donor intervention research?

Soon after a patient dies their organs inside the body of the patient starts decaying. Hence in a few minutes immediately after the death the process of organ damage onsets. To put a halt to this, researchers over the world wanted to study the donor intervention research using brain dead donors. This was due to the barrier of ethics and morals that puts up the issue of demand of consent from the patient, which becomes impossible in cases where the patient dies suddenly.

Access of donor intervention:

Research on organ donor intervention retains the right for testing and assessing interventions like protocols of donor management, devices, medications and drugs etc. This is essential to enhance and maintain the quality of organs retrieved from the patient, prior to transplantation.

However the ratio of the organs available for transplantation to the number of needy recipients is quite low. In many cases the recovered organs doesn't get transplanted. There are still a lot of cases where the transplanted organ malfunctions or even the procurement of organs from a dead patient becomes impossible.

Opportunities and Restrictions on Organ Donation:

As unending researches that are being conducted, to ease out the process of procurement of the organs from a deceased person; the research process is also giving rise to ethical, regulatory, legal, organisational and even policy issues. According to their statements they are seeking transparency of information to be provided to a client, and a prominent demand of dignity and honour of the organ donor.

The research on preservation of transplanted organs by applying hypothermia is going on. But the fact that in case of unfortunate death of the human subject, there's no scope of obtaining their oversight and permission to this problem, raises a lot of questions.

There is still a dearth of ways that can certify that organ donation of a dead individual dose not hamper the equal distribution of scanty and previous resources.