The family consented to organ donation, and her organs were procured the following day.
To be sure, there were as there are now individuals who held that procuring organs from, thereby killing, irreversibly unconscious patients who had consented to donate is a legitimate exception to this moral principle (see the entry on voluntary euthanasia), but this judgment strikes many as a radical departure from common morality.
Small samples of approximately 1 2 mm of Tenon's capsule were procured sterilely from donor eyes of the local eye bank no more than 5 hours post mortem, if the donors had consented to the scientific use of excess material.
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Results: Twelve women consented to our protocol.
Be it further resolved, etc., That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress requested, to procure the passage of a law on the part of the United States, consenting to the extension of the constitution, and the jurisdiction of the laws of the State of Louisiana, over the territory in said river.' S.Misc.Doc.No.135, 30th Cong., 1st Sess.
Informed consent from legal guardians was not required to procure and process stool specimens already obtained from children with acute gastroenteritis as part of standard clinical practice.
A presumed consent or 'opting out' system which enables hospitals to procure organs from potential donors unless the deceased has formally registered an objection [ 5], is used in most countries in Europe with a spectrum of enforcement and family involvement [ 4, 5].
Bone marrow and peripheral blood cells are procured prior to treatment within the standard diagnostic workup, and in patients consenting to serial sampling, also at defined, early and late time points during the treatment.
Community-dwelling patients listed on the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health data-base will be contacted to procure interest in participation and later provide informed voluntary consent.
Strategies to procure organs each have their advantages and disadvantages and depend on consent systems, legal opportunities, in-hospital and out-of-hospital institution and financial possibilities.
