Abstract:

China′s organ donation and transplantation has made significant progress through decades of arduous exploration, combined with multiple supportive factors such as people′s health needs, national leadership, social support and hard efforts. In recent years, China has successively introduced relevant laws and regulations to establish a legal framework for organ donation and transplantation at the national level. Recently, the "Regulations on Human Organ Transplantation" have been revised for the first time in 16 years, improving the relevant content of "organ donation" , which will better ensure the healthy development of organ donation and transplantation. In line with the development trend, organ donation has become a new discipline jointly created by multiple disciplines in China′s new era. Promoting the construction of an organ donation discipline system with the overall goal of safeguarding the legitimate and reasonable rights and interests of organ donors and their families, as well as the health rights and interests of transplant recipients, is in line with the fundamental requirements of promoting the high-quality development of organ donation and transplantation in China. This article analyzes the current development status of organ donation worldwide and in China in recent years, and demonstrates the necessity and feasibility of building an organ donation discipline system based on interdisciplinary integration.

Key words: Organ Donation, Organ Transplantation, Multidisciplinary integration, Organ procurement organization, Brain death, Intensive care unit