FDP plans new organ donation rules: More donors due to cardiovascular arrest!

FDP plans new organ donation rules: More donors due to cardiovascular arrest!

In Berlin, the FDP in the Bundestag plans to fundamentally expand the definition of death for organ donation. With this innovation, brain reveal could no longer be considered as a donor, but also people who die according to a cardiovascular arrest. The aim of this measure is to increase the number of donors and thus to help more seriously ill patients who are urgently dependent on an organ.

The proposal is presented in a position paper that is expected to be approved by the parliamentary group on Tuesday. In the future, potential organ donors could write down their consent to withdrawal directly in the special field of the organ donation register or on corresponding IDs, which should also strengthen the right to self-determination in the context of death.

Medical challenges in the death assessment

The discussion about the definition of death is intensively conducted by experts. Andrew Ullmann, the health policy spokesman for the FDP and Professor, explains that the determination of death according to medical standards is not uniformly regulated. Brain death requires complex and complex examinations, while cardiac death is easier and more effective. Ullmann emphasizes that a circular arrest can be viewed equally for brain death, which continues to cheer on the debate.

The need to provide more organs for transplants is considered more urgent. In 2022, the coordinators of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation reported that despite the 965 organ donating deceased, over 8,400 people are on the waiting lists. These figures illustrate the enormous need for action, so that the proposed changes could certainly have a broad interest.

experts agree that clarity in death assessment in the sense of patient care is essential. In view of the fact that more and more people are waiting for a life -saving organ, the expansion of the death definition could be the key to find an effective and ethically justifiable solution for the ongoing organ donation number crisis. The entire process is now under observation, since the discussions are continued intensively, as www.radioenneperuhr.de reports .