In Memoriam - Prof. Häkan Gäbel
With deep regret, we inform that Prof. Häkan Gäbel passed away on June the 8th, 2017.
Prof. Gäbel, a distinguished surgeon, worked at the Transplantation Surgery Department of the Huddinge Hospital (Sweden).
He was Associate Professor of Surgery and National Transplant Coordinator of Sweden.
Prof. Gäbel has collaborated for many years as faculty of the “International Advanced Training Course of Transplant Coordination – TPM Courses”.
All the TPM family is very touched from losing a friend and a colleague.
May he rest in Peace.
5th Advanced Course in Transplant Procurement Management -TPM Vimeiro, Portugal
The Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação (Ministério da Saúde) together with the Donation and Trasplantation Institute from Barcelona organized the 5th advance training course in organ donation and transplantation. The training took place in Vimeiro, Portugal from the 22th to 25th of May.
The objective of the course was to train healthcare professionals as specialists in Transplant Procurement Management, with a view to increasing the number and the quality of organs and tissues available for transplantation in Portugal.
Several studies show that increasing the awareness among professionals for the need of donation has a direct impact on increasing the rate of organ donors and, consequently, the number of organs available for transplant, allowing to improve the quality of life or even save the lives of many patients.
During the 4 days of the course, 50 health care professionals learned about leading practices in organ donation. The course consisted of theoretical classes and practical simulations for each of the steps of deceased organ donation process.
Donation and transplantation activity in Portugal has increased over the last 10 years. In 2015 and 2016 donation rates reached record figures, with more than 30 donors per million inhabitants. Also, the number of transplants performed has reached high values, with an increase of 5% from 2015 to 2016.
Interview with Dr. Maria Paula Gomez
International Symposium of SIUT
The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation of Karachi Pakistan is a model of solidarity around the world. It operates more than 1.000 transplants per year all of them financed by donations and charity. The professor Rizvi started to work in this way because of the lack of resources in the country.
It is a recognised institution in both national and international levels. For this reason, representative members from all around the world met for four days in a Congress in Pakistan. During these days we talked about transplantations and above all the great interest of the country for trying to start the corpse donation. The national situation is not easy since the instability of economy, politics and security is very weak.
Probably, through the Spanish embassy and the consul of Pakistan in Barcelona could establish collaboration for doctors from that country to learn about new technics of organ donation.
Martí Manyalich, President of TPM-DTI Foundation
Professor Naqi, Martí Manyalich and Professor Rizvi at SIUT International Symposium.
Martí Manyalich President of ISODP
Within the last Congress ISODP (Seoul) I started my term as President of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP) until the next congress in Geneva ISODP September 2017.
It is an honor to represent all the organization of “International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement” and all his scientific and clinical research worldwide.
I hope that together with the whole family TPM-DTI, all the professionals and the willingness of patients who are waiting for transplants, we may collaborate and continue walking forward.
Martí Manyalich, President of DTI Foundation
Working against organ trafficking
DTI Foundation attended at the 15th meeting of the European Committee (Partial Agreement) on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) to present new projects initiativeswhich was held Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from 23-24 March 2015. This meeting brought together internationally-recognised experts to discuss topics such as the fight against organ trafficking, international cooperation, the development of ethical, quality and safety standards and future projects in the Council of Europe members states.
In this context, DTI Foundation representatives participated in the “Walk Against Organ Trafficking” held on Tuesday 24 March 2015 (afternoon) on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela (the Way of St James). Organised by the Council of Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Spanish National Agency for Transplantation (ONT) and Swiss Transplant, this event aimed at pooling efforts to raise awareness of the fight against organ trafficking and promote voluntary organ donation, which helps to save and improve the lives of thousands of patients throughout the world.
In addition, DTI representatives also participated in the “High-level International Conference on the Fight against Trafficking in Human Organs” (25-26 March 2015) which invites governments to criminalize the illicit removal of human organs. During this conference, the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organswas signed by 14 Member States of the Council of Europe.
New edition of Transplant Coordination Manual
We are delighted to announce the new edition of the Transplant Coordination Manual is already available in print and e-book format. We welcome all our friends, healthcare professionals involved in organ donation and transplantation to purchase it. Contact us at infotpm@tpm.pcb.ub.es
This manual is intended to be a comprehensive handbook to address the problems and challenges that the organ procurement process encounters, from pragmatic solutions to the new trends in this field. It is based on the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) training methodology that brings together highly qualified international experts to ensure best practice exchange across
the global community.
It embodies the state-of-the-art of the donation – transplantation process. It focuses on the major aspects, duties and professional responsibilities of the TPM: detection, identification and selection of donors, brain death diagnosis, donor management, organ viability, family approach for organ donation, donation after cardiac death, organ recovery organization & preservation
techniques, organ sharing and allocation criteria, living donation, tissue donation, ethics and legislation, as well as the establishment and development of organ donation systems.
The editors would like to acknowledge the support we have received from remarkable national and international authors with a well-known and longstanding expertise in every specific area of the donation-transplantation field, many of them as part of the permanent TPM faculty.
We hope that this manual will become an optimal resource for all the professionals devoted to the human organs, tissues and cells procurement, and help them to strengthen their competences and motivation to save human lives and / or increase its quality.