[Cards of information and informed consent. Proposal of 14 information cards for plastic and aesthetic surgery].

Obligation to deliver full information and obtaining enlightened assent are now, for the whole French practitioner, a necessary preliminary to each operation. Henceforth, in case of suit, the practitioner must prove the reality and the quality of preoperatoire information. The National Medical French Council (CNOM) called scientific societies attention to propose to their members some index standard cards, corresponding to mail medical and surgical records. The National Agency for Accreditation and Evaluation in Health (Anaes) defined the main characteristics of these documents. The authors propose fourteen information cards corresponding to the most currently operations of plastic and aesthetic surgery. They will being clear and simple, wtih a large agreement, strictly informative and yearly up to date. They have the label and therefore the scientific guarantee of French Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.