Abstract

REDONDO-SAENZ, Diego  and  RAMIREZ-ELIZONDO, Noé. Person-centered care during organ procurement surgery: is it still important?. Index Enferm [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.1-2, pp.65-69.  Epub Apr 25, 2022. ISSN 1699-5988.

Person-centered care places the individual's human dignity, respect, and needs at the core of its focus, and its applicability has been demonstrated within multiple environments. The perioperative environment, nevertheless, frequently invokes positivist discourses that move away its focus from such approach, materializing in the operating theatre a space sterile from subjectivities. Furthermore, the conjugation of death as a professional failure, the debates concerning the end of life and the loss of the personhood after death, separates the person-centered care from the perioperative care of dead people, such as during the organ procurement surgery. Despite this dichotomy, person-centered care channels Perioperative Nursing towards an integrative care, for which it could be reframed as human-centered care and perpetuate dignity beyond death.

Keywords : Perioperative Nursing; Perioperative Care; Patient-Centered Care.