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Surgical Informed Consent Process in Neurosurgery

  • Park, Jaechan (Department of Neurosurgery, Research Center for Neurosurgical Robotic Systems, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Park, Hyojin (Kosin University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2017.01.05
  • Accepted : 2017.02.20
  • Published : 2017.07.01
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Abstract

The doctrine of informed consent, as opposed to medical paternalism, is intended to facilitate patient autonomy by allowing patient participation in the medical decision-making process. However, regrettably, the surgical informed consent (SIC) process is invariably underestimated and reduced to a documentary procedure to protect physicians from legal liability. Moreover, residents are rarely trained in the clinical and communicative skills required for the SIC process. Accordingly, to increase professional awareness of the SIC process, a brief history and introduction to the current elements of SIC, the obstacles to patient autonomy and SIC, benefits and drawbacks of SIC, planning of an optimal SIC process, and its application to cases of an unruptured intracranial aneurysm are all presented. Optimal informed consent process can provide patients with a good comprehension of their disease and treatment, augmented autonomy, a strong therapeutic alliance with their doctors, and psychological defenses for coping with stressful surgical circumstances.

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