The Informed Consent Process

Informed consent is obtained in the following way:

1-Must be used with priority, analogue to a form by the Commission of Informed Consent

2-The form is handed over to the patient as far in advance as possible, in any case less than 24 hours before the procedure that is to be performed, insofar as it is of urgent activities. And never when the patient is numbed with mentally altered, or not while you are within the operating room or the room where medical or surgical Act is practiced.

3- It will be sought that the patient make a first reading of the form and clarified many doubts may arise.

4- It is suitable that the patients delay its decision and can meditate it quietly in their family environment.

5- When the form consists of more than one, the patient must sign, in addition to the site earmarked for the effect, on the side of each one of the leaves that informed consent that is given is composed.

6- Only the patient object of the procedure has the authorization to sign, with the exception of cases that includes the Bill of rights and information to the patient's consent by substitution and which are as follows:

-When the patient is incapacitated; the spouse, partner of fact or relatives, with preference the next grade and failing family closer people.

-In the case of minors or disabled persons legally, entitlement belongs to the parents or legal representative who must demonstrate clear and unequivocal, way under the corresponding judgment of incapacitation and establishment of guardianship, which is legally enabled to make decisions affecting the person minor or incapacitated by the guardianship or legal guardian.

-In the case of emancipated minor, the minor must consent personally.

-When the decision of the legal representative is contrary to the interests of the child, should be the facts to the attention of the competent authority under the provisions of the civil law.

-If the patient had previously appointed a person for the purpose of issuing on behalf of informed consent, it will be up to that person preference

7-In the case of revocation the patient must sign in the section intended for this purpose, at that time deferred and without possibilities of making the intervention that was offered to the patient while not again to produce a new Act of informed consent.

If we will refer specifically to surgery should take more specific measures such as:

-Identify and describe the procedure.

-Objectives and benefits we hope to achieve.

-Reasonable alternatives said procedure.

-Foreseeable consequences of their non-implementation.

-Frequent hazards.

-Rare risks.

-Risks on the basis of the patient's clinical situation

To generalize, the patient should be informed absolute mind everything in a clear and readable as well as being the easiest and short as possible, must

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