IRODaT - 2020 preliminary numbers in organ donation and transplantation
IRODaT official reporters team, has brought together the 2020 international preliminary numbers in organ donation and transplantation.
The mission of the International Registry in Organ Donation and Transplantation (IRODaT) is to support the healthcare professionals, transplant specialist, researchers and general community to have access to verified and validated information.
We invite you to visit IRODaT website www.irodat.org, where you will find
information from other countries and news regarding international organ
donation and transplantation.
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
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.
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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.
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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