End of II Curso Em Banco de Tecidos
The II Curso Em Banco de Tecidos finished yesterday after a 3-days module about tissue donation and transplantation. Including family approach when communicating bad news.
It was addressed to transplant coordinators with the objective to promote donation of tissues in the country.
This course was co-organised with the Ministério da Saúde -Instituto Portugués do Sange e da Transplantação (IPST). This was the second activity organised this year as DTI Foundation first did a course in Transplant Coordination.
Both courses have been taught in portuguese. Workshops and live streaming sessions were taught with a couple of Spanish-Portuguese experts.
Virtual Reality Workshop at the University of Barcelona
On October 29th, a virtual reality educational experience was put into practice with 3rd year medical degree students from the Clinical Campus of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona.
This activity was carried out within a subject coordinated by Dr. Clhoë Ballesté, Ricard Valero and David Paredes.
It is an experience through 360º videos and virtual reality glasses that he develops and an interview with the different members of a patient's family. It is an immersive learning activity that allows students to put themselves in the shoes of a doctor and live the experience as if it were real. In this way, they have been able to work in much more detail, within virtual reality, the communication of bad news aimed at the relatives of patients.
The activity has been very well received by students.
This virtual reality experience was created by the Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) Foundation in conjunction with Immersium Studios.
DTI-CNT Online Training in Organ Donation
DTI Foundation and Istituto Superiore di Sanità – Centro Nazionale Trapianti (ISS-CNT) continue their long-lasting collaboration, which started in 1999. Along these 22 years, 3825 participants have been trained in 98 courses of different modalities.
During the current year, a Self-Study Online Course in Organ Donation and 3 live sessions titled Organ Donation Update in Covid-19 Times have been developed.
The self-study course lasted one month (11th January-22nd February) and aimed at introducing the participants into the field of deceased and living organ donation. The theoretical content was divided in 10 topics (Donor Detection System, Brain Death Diagnosis, Donor Management, Family Approach, Organ Recovery and Preservation, Organ Allocation Criteria, controlled and uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Death) and complemented with self-assessing activities.
UEMS-EACCME© certification was provided.
The live sessions were distributed in 3 days (1st-3rd March) with the main aim to provide an update on how much the pandemic has affected donation and transplantation activities and how important and necessary it is to continue updating and training healthcare professionals from this field in this context. The faculty included experts from both countries, Italy and Spain.
A total of 67 participants completed the program and were certified also with CME Italian credits.
2nd KSA Intermediate Online Training Course
The second TPM course for participants from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took place from the 8th to the 10th of March, 2021, in collaboration with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation (SCOT).
Around 50 health professionals (ICU doctors, nurses and Transplant Coordinators) from all regions of the KSA were trained by an international group of experts with vast experience both in organ donation and training:
Dr. Francesco Procaccio, consultant at Italian National Transplant Organization (CNT); Dr. José Luis Escalante, Director of Transplant Program at University Hospital Gregorio Marañón from Madrid (Spain); Dr. Željka Gavranović, Anesthesiology and Critical Care specialist and transplant coordinator at University Hospital Centre “Sestre Milosrdnice” from Zagreb (Croatia); Dr. Rafael Badenes, Anesthesiology and Critical Care specilaist at University Hopsital Clinic of Valencia (Spain); Mr. Luc Colenbie, transplant coordinator and Belgian delegate in the European committee on organ transplantation; and Dr. Martí Manyalich, Assessor on Transplantation, Medical Direction at Univeristy Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain).
The results and comments from the evaluation report are very positive, with an overall course assessment of 4.7 (from a scale of 1 to 5).
We are thankful to the international and local faculty, as well as to the organizing team who was involved and made the course a success!
First TPM Advanced course (Spanish edition) in Online Modality
The 31st edition of the “Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos” has been carried out in virtual modality from the 3rd to the 25th of February 2021.
37 participants from Spain and 9 from Latin-American countries, including those participating in the Master Alianza (ONT), have shared 8 interactive live sessions every Wednesday and Thursday of the month of February.
This traditionally face-to-face course, in which participation, teamwork and hands-on simulation is always boosted, has been adapted to the virtual modality applying the latest innovations in educational material.
The use of interactives video games, clinical broadcasted live simulations and an immersive experience with virtual reality, have been the alternative to the face-to-face experience with positive results according to participants comments about the course development.
The course has been partially subsidized by the Spanish Ministry of Health through the National Transplant Organization-ONT and also supported by the Catalan Transplant Organization-OCATT.
Our special thanks to all the faculty and staff for making it possible.
DTI Foundation trained more than 50 healthcare professionals from Kerala, India
More than 50 healthcare professionals, including physicians, intensivists and nurses, from Trivandrum Medical College in Kerala, India, attended the TPM online intermediate course that took place between January 18th and 20th. This was possible thanks to the collaboration between DTI Foundation and KNOS (Kerala Network for Organ Sharing) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Kerala, and the funding of Eurofins.
Faculty from DTI and local experts from India gave lectures and the corresponding workshops. Dr. Marco Sacchi, from Italy, and Dr. Marián Irazábal, from Spain, gave a class about Organ Donation update in Covid times, a recently added subject given the current circumstances. Dr. Chitra P, from India, taught Death by neurological criteria alongside Spanish doctor Ignacio Martínez. Dr. Núria Masnou, who talked about Breaking bad news and family approach, complemented with Dr. Raman Muraleedharan’s contribution.
The main goal of the TPM intermediate online course was providing knowledge on organ donation to healthcare professionals, while empowering detection of potential donors and, thus, increasing the donation rates.
Kerala is a state in the south-eastern region of India, with a population of approximately 35 million people. Kerala has been fighting against bad practice in deceased organ donation observed in other states in India. KNOS’s aim is to specialize their healthcare professionals in the deceased organ donation process to change these tendencies and start walking towards an organ donation and transplantation system that contributes to improving the quality of life of its population.
1st TPM online course in KSA launched in December 2020
DTI Foundation and Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation (SCOT) are implementing a project to train healthcare professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with the goal to improve and consolidate its deceased organ donation program.
This project will include 4 TPM intermediate courses from September 2020 to June 2021 and train professionals from across the KSA. Furthermore, to reinforce the organ donation programs, the project contemplates the organization of local seminars specially aimed at policy makers and non-health care professionals.
The first TPM course was delivered online from 14th to 16th of December involving around 50 ICU doctors, transplant coordinators and nurses from more than 30 different hospitals. An interactive and dynamically designed program was led by a renowned group of experts from Spain, Italy, Croatia and Belgium and local faculty from KSA.
The training explored fundamental aspects of organ donation and transplantation including donor detection and evaluation, brain death diagnosis, donor management, family approach, organ recovery and allocation, deceased organ donation in KSA and latest updates on organ donation in times of COVID-19.
First live broadcast of DCD simulation
On the 30th of November DTI Foundation performed for the first time a live broadcast simulation from the new DTI office located in Sabadell, Barcelona area.
Simulation on both uncontrolled and controlled DCD took place for 3 hours within the framework of the 17th edition of the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues and Cells, certified by the University of Barcelona, and the Organ Procurement online course, certified by DTI Foundation.
28 attendees from all over the world had the opportunity to follow the live lecture with full interaction including a final debate led by a team of 5 experts: Dr Ángel Ruiz, Dr David Paredes and Alberto Villamor, RN, from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona; Dr Eva Oliver from Hospital Bellvitge; and Dr Marián Irazabal from DTI Foundation.
They performed a lecture including a multitasking broadcast such as describing theDCDs procedures, hands-on demonstration over mannequin and images displaying.
This methodology was a success and will continue to be implemented in other simulations offered by DTI Foundation.
VR immersive methodology in DTI training
In collaboration with Immersium Studio, DTI has developed an immersive learning app that allows to practice a family interview within the organ and tissue donation process. Through a virtual reality platform, bad news are delivered and consent to donation is requested as part of the main steps of this process.
The students of the first edition of the International Workshop in Family Approach for Organ Donation were the first to experience this immersive exercise which took place from December 1st to 4th.
The experience is carried out with a “card-board” virtual reality device in which the participant is immersed in a 360º environment. During the development of the sequence, a specific role is assigned to each participant while being presented with several options that allow the student to choose the way to conduct the interview.
These choices will also have an impact on the reactions that families might have and the challenge is to achieve all the objectives of the activity at the same time, acquiring the communication skills, tools and strategies required to face a complex conversation successfully following a systematic methodology to finally obtain consent to organ and tissue donation.
Quality Indicators in the Organ Donation Process
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DTI Foundation co-hosted the Workshop: 'Quality Indicators in the Organ Donation Process' organized by CENATRA (National Transplant Centre) and CETOT (State Organ and Tissue Transplantation Council of Jalisco), Mexico. The event was held in the framework of its XVIII National Congress of Organ and Tissue Procurement, Donation and Transplantation.
The objective of the Workshop was for the participants to learn how to identify, measure and analyse KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) of the organ donation process, which will allow to improve donation processes and increase the transplant rates.
Almost a hundred people from all over Mexico participated in the event. Doctors, surgeons, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, nephrologists, transplant coordinators and many other specialists from nearly 50 Mexican centres of 10 different cities.
The workshop was officially certified by TPM Transplant Procurament Manegament. It was taught by Dr Araceli Cisneros Villaseñor and Dr Carlos A. Mata Martínez of CETOT; Dr Reginaldo Boni, Professor of TPM and Coordinator of the OPO (Organ Procurement Office) in Brazil; Dr María Paula Gómez, TPM Professor and Executive Director of DTI Foundation and Dr Núria Masnou, TPM Professor and Transplant Coordinator of the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona, Spain.
