Protocol
Cosmetic Surgery - Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic Medicine - Reconstructive Surgery
A medical protocol is a statement of the code of conduct for a medical
procedure (clinical trial, surgery, radiotherapy, etc.) or a scientific
experiment.
For each type of medical or surgical procedure, there is a protocol
which is a collection of indicators associated with examinations or
treatment rules for the given pathology. Both the various means of
exploration and the various treatments are codified and protocol helps
ensure that what is done to the patient is necessary and anything that
is unnecessary is avoided. . A protocol is a guide for the physician
and/or surgeon, it is not a binding obligation on them.
The protocol can be a study protocol or clinical trial protocol
allowing a new treatment to be evaluated, specifying the basis for the
study and its practical conditions. The protocol is submitted to a
scientific council that will undertake a scientific and ethical review.
The protocol should include the patient information form and the
informed consent. This type of protocol provides a framework to ensure
the best or one of the best treatments possible is given. The examining
physician remains free to propose a treatment to a patient or not and
the patient is free to accept it or not. Any decision taken by a
patient in relation to a medical procedure must be taken with informed
consent, which is to say that the physician or surgeon must not omit or
conceal anything from his patient. The French Law of March 4, 2002
states in this regard that "no medical procedure or treatment can be
performed without the informed consent of the person concerned and
consent may be withdrawn at any time".
There is also a surgical protocol or there are surgery notes,
comprising a report on the surgical procedure, detailing the
circumstances under which it occurred, with observations and the key
procedures carried out by i the surgeon. This surgical protocol should
remain in the patient's medical record.