9th edition of the TPM Intermediate Course in Slovenia
A total of 30 healthcare professionals from Slovenia attended the 9th edition of the TPM Intermediate Training Course in Transplant Coordination. The course took place between March 28th and 31st. It was possible thanks to the collaboration between DTI Foundation and the Institute for transplantation of Organs and Tissues of the Republic – Slovenija-transplant.
DTI and local experts from Slovenia gave lectures and workshops on topics such as donor detection, brain death, donor management and family approach.
The main goal of the TPM intermediate online course was providing knowledge and skills on organ donation and motivate the healthcare professionals on the active detection to increase the donation and transplantation rates in the country.
Thank you to Slovenija-Transplant and all the participants for another amazing edition!
Hvala vam!
SEHA and DTI Foundation organize an event to promote Organ Donation in UAE in the framework of the EXPODUBAI 2020
Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA) and DTI Foundation in collaboration with the Spain Pavilion organized an awareness event to promote the organ donation in UAE. The event took place in the Spain Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai. It drew many attendees in person as well online last Saturday.
The event provided a valuable opportunity to meet and exchange knowledge about organ donation and raise awareness in the UAE.
Since 2015, DTI Foundation's collaboration with SEHA and the UEA National Transplant committee has been beneficial, creating protocols and guidelines for the management of an organ donation system in UAE.
DTI Foundation is currently supporting SEHA for the consolidation of a deceased organ donation program with a SEUSA (Spanish, Europe, USA) program, to increase self-sufficiency in deceased organ donation. DTI Foundation looks forward to grow organ donation numbers in the future.
So far, more than 390 physicians and nurses have been trained in the organ donation and transplantation field. Since September 2021, the project has made possible the achievement of 38 utilized donors and 159 organs transplanted.
DTI is present at the 4YFN Congress 2022
DTI Foundation took part in the 4FYN Congress, one of the largest startups exhibitions for the mobile tech industry as well as distributive business models. Industry leaders, innovators, founders, and pioneers all showcased the best and latest while facilitating meaningful connections to other attendees.
The convention, which took place at MWC Barcelona Convention Center, takes place from February 28th to March 3rd, 2022. This is the 8th year of 4FYN, since 2014 the convention has grown to become the largest exhibition of mobile technology around the world. This past convention brought together hundreds of startups to the showroom floor to showcase their ideas and innovations to thousands of attendees, some being potential investors and customers, as well as experts.
DTI Foundation presented its training programs, consultancy options and innovative projects in hall 6 of the convention with Estephan Arredondo, DTI’s Tissue and Cells Directors. This presentation was made in Tech Barcelona’s Stand with the collaboration of Biocat.
Though the dates for next 4FYN Congress have not yet been released, we are eager and hopeful to be represented again at the convention.
Webinar on Organ Perfusion Systems
To say goodbye to the first month of 2021, the DTI Community, together with the Hospital Clinic and the University of Barcelona, organized a new international webinar. This time the topic was "Organ perfusion systems: a solution for the future".
For this webinar, we had the pleasure of having Dr. Pedro Moreo from EBERS Medical Technology S.L. and Mr. Francesc Gahete from XVIVO Perfusion AB. Moderated by our director of the Tissue and Cells Unit Mr. Estephan Arredondo, the webinar addressed the present and future of organ perfusion systems as innovative techniques to increase the availability of organs for transplantation.
More than 50 people from different parts of the world joined this webinar and had a firsthand view of the latest achievements and future challenges of perfusion systems.
The great advantage of perfusion machines over static perfusion methods is that, not only do they keep the organ in good condition, but they can help improve some of its parameters. In addition, extending the maintenance time of the organs facilitates a better organization of the donation and transplantation process.The speakers explained the process of development of their devices and different components that allow to maintain and improve the state of each organ. They also talked about the time of use validated by each machine, as well as the clinical trials and accreditations they had carried out.
This webinar can be consulted at DTI Community website
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Patient Talks
DTI Community organizes monthly Patient Talks, a series of monographic webinars with the aim to engage with transplant patients. Here we share initiatives of patient’s associations in different countries, testimonies about life after a transplant, as well as doctors speaking about specific topics.
So far, we have talked about “Best practices in organ donation and transplantation from the patient’s point of view”, “The role of patient associations in organ donation and transplantation”, “MOD: a new type of advocacy to increase organ donation in Sweden”, “The value of sport and physical activity”, “Response to COVID-19 in a dialysis centre in Castellón region” and “Possibilities after a transplant”. 79 attendees have already registered to our past talks, what are you waiting for?
If you could not attend, don't worry because you will be able to find the recordings in the “Patients” section of DTI Community.
We are currently working in the calendar for this season’s Patient talks:
- “How Portugal reached 34 pmp”, scheduled for November 20th.
- “Por qué una Asociación de enfermos o pacientes”, scheduled for December 17th (talk in Spanish language).
Save the dates!
TEODOR, the most recent European project on training in organ donation and transplantation
TEODOR: Transeuropean Educational initiative in Organ Donation and Transplantation is an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission under the program KA2 - Strategic partnerships in the field of education and training.
This project will be developed between 2020 and 2023, aiming at designing and piloting a new and innovative training programme on organ donation and transplantation for physicians & relevant healthcare personnel from Latvia, Czech Republic, and Lithuania. The training will be implemented with the support of Spain and Sweden, given their expertise in organ donation and transplantation.
Partners:
- Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvia (Leader)
- DTI DONATION & TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTE, Spain
- UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Spain
- SKANE LANS LANDSTING, Sweden
- Fakultní nemocnice Královské Vinohrady, Czech Republic
- National Transplant Bureau under the Ministry of Health, Lithuania
- University of Latvia, Latvia
TEODOR will address Key Professionals from:
- For organ and tissue donation, the Key Donation Professionals (KDPs) will include healthcare personnel from Intensive Care Units, Emergency Departments, Neuro-critical wards, organ donor/transplant coordinators
- For organ transplantation, the Key Transplantation Professionals (KTPs) Immunologists, transplant surgeons, internal medicine specialists managing the transplant patient before and after the surgical procedure such as nephrologists, hepatologists, cardiologists, pneumonologists, etc.
The project will last 36 months and will implement the following activities:
- Data analysis before and after TEODOR educational intervention, with the aim to evaluate the programme impact on learners’ knowledge and their clinical performance after the training implementation.
- Design and implement a Train the Trainers (TxT) programme targeting all the future trainers to be involved in the TEODOR training programme
- To design and implement the TEODOR modular multilevel blended training. Two modules for Donation Professionals and Transplantation Professionals will be designed following a multi-level pattern:
- LEVEL 1. BASIC. This first level aims to engage and motivate the TEODOR learners
- LEVEL 2. INTERMEDIATE. The current level will boost learning
- LEVEL 3. ADVANCED. The third level aims at reinforcing what has been learnt and facilitate its transfer to the clinical setting.
More information coming soon!
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DTI Foundation in the TTS 2020 Congress
During September 13th to 16th, DTI Foundation joined the first virtual edition of The Transplantation Society-TTS congress.
Our team was really busy during this event presenting abstracts, posters and attending virtual conferences lively from all over the world. Here are the main activities we were involved those days.
Co-organizing with TTS the Networking sessions:
- “Deceased Organ Donation in COVID Times”; this session count with the participation of key organ donation and transplant leaders worldwide and at the same time it was possible to present the IDOTCOVID database, the International Database on Organ Donation and Transplantation-COVID19 that will assist transplant clinicians with their medical decisions on transplant patients covid+.
- The MENA, Middle East and North of Africa session gathered 121 participants from more than 10 countries of the area. It was explained what the current situation of donation in these countries is and what are the most important points to develop the donation. The conclusion is that as this region will grow a lot in the future (more than 500 million people) and will have a high demand for organs for transplantation, it is very important to develop systems that would handle this situation.
- “New technologies applied to organ donation”, the objective was to offer to the organ donation and transplant network an up-to-date session regarding how new technologies could assist their daily work. Twenty institutions from around the world participated in the session as panellists. The following topics were covered during the networking session: telemedicine platforms, management software. Database & Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and novelties in machines perfusions.
One of these new technologies is the electronic consultancy platform I-DTI, an online tool that allows knowledge exchange between healthcare professionals related to organ donation and transplantation. It was launched internationally at the congress and the preliminary results of implementation of the i-DTI beta version were presented during the Education abstract session. I-DTI is offering a free access until December 2020 to support to the health care professionals during the COVID-19 global situation. More info: https://www.i-dti.com/
More abstracts were presented such as the European Project ODISSeA (Organ Donation Innovative Strategies for Southeast Asia) as well as the work done regarding the ISO Quality Certification for a Hospital-Based Organ Procurement Unit-The United Arab Emirates Experience, and Implementation Results of the First Hospital-Based Organ Procurement Unit in Kerala (India).
Sisters despite pandemics: Two TTS-ISN projects going on virtually
We miss our regular picture in front of the ISN booth at the congress but we are still with enthusiastic and hard working with our partners in Philippines and Sri Lanka.
The Sister program level A with Philippines, Southern Philippines Medical Center, is going on despite COVID pandemics, reinforcing knowledge and expertise exchange through I-DTI platform and online courses in a virtual way. Webinars, courses and clinical cases debates have been some of our activities, but we are looking forward to restart professional exchanges!
With Sri Lanka, Sri Jayawardenapura General Hospital’s, we have started level C to reinforce the current programs of kidney transplant and organ procurement but also to contribute on the implementation of pancreas transplant program. In this first stage COVID hasn’t interfere too much but we are looking forward to meeting both teams soon!
A new 100% online edition for our historical International Master’s degree on donation and transplantation of organs, tissues and cells.
The new version that allows anyone, anywhere to pursue our University of Barcelona Master’s degree has been presented in the congress. Our wish is to break borders and pandemics with innovative and immersive experiences. We have been working hard on it and hope that the new participants this year will enjoy it as much as we have done it designing it! We will keep you updated!
DTI Challenge Game: using gamification in the TTS congress to learn and play
DTI foundation, together with Compettia/Atririvity Co., have designed an App that allows participants to challenge each other through organ procurement, transplantation and COVID questions and was highly interactive during the congress. Participants can train, learning and having fun at the same time!
The winner has been Dr. Manuel Enrique Núñez Duarte from Colombia and he has won an online course. CONGRATULATIONS!
We have enjoyed with this experience and we are working on finding the way to make you enjoy it too!
DTI Challenge Game available at TTS Virtual Congress 2020
If you are attending the TTS Virtual congress 2020, we invite you to visit our Industry Corner space and start playing the DTI Challenge Game, a new, educational competition about organ donation and transplantation.
It will give you the opportunity to test your knowledge by challenging other TTS congress attendees in simple, double, triple and even in group challenges.
This app will not only be a fun way to play with your colleagues but also it will be useful for us in order to evaluate which are the trending topics of the Organ Donation and Transplantation field among the participants.
The more you play the more chances you have to enter into the raffle to win free access to one of our online courses!
The game will start on the 13th of September at 8am CEST and will be open until the 16th of September at 9pm CEST. Participants will have 24 more hours to complete their challenges.
The Atrivity app is available at Google Play, App Store & AppInChina. Download it and register here to play!
4 Webinar series as part of ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centre Program
Since 2016, the South Philippines Medical Center (SPMSC) got into engagement with the University of Barcelona (UB), Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (HCB), DTI foundation, and more recently, Fundació Puigvert, in the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program; a joint partnership facilitated by International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and The Transplantation Society (TTS) to develop existing Kidney Transplant programs in emerging countries. Since then, several activities have been organized to promote knowledge and experience exchange between healthcare and educational institutions from Davao (Philippines) and Barcelona (Spain) regarding donation and transplantation.
Considering the current pandemic crisis, the team involved in the program decided to adapt the next initiatives to prioritize COVID-19 outbreak as an immediate concern to the international heathcare system and professionals.
Therefore, between June 11th and July 3rd a series of 4 Webinars have been organized, each of them focused on a current topic related to COVID-19, in order to share useful information between experts from our centers: Dr Josep Maria Miró, Dr Joan Ramon Badia, Mrs Carme Hernández, Dr José Jesús Broseta, Dr David Paredes and Dr Fritz Diekmann from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and University of Barcelona; Dr Leopoldo Vega, Dr Maria Elinore Alba-Concha, Dr Ricardo B. Audan and Dr Maria Theresa Bad-ang from Southern Philippines Medical Center; Dr Anna Vila from Fundació Puigvert and Dr Chloë Ballesté and Dr Entela Kondi from DTI Foundation.
The webinar series were open and disseminated to the large public, although specifically targeted for the Southern Philippines Medical Center’s healthcare professionals, reaching a total of 494 attendees.
