Organ Procurement Training Program

Objectives

• Comprehend the most effective methods to detect potential donors and improve donor referrals
• Understand the brain death concepts and the requirements for clinical determination and confirmatory tests of brain death
• Learn how to efficiently manage the brain-dead donor in accordance with the pathophysiological changes that may frequently occur in brain death, and which have a direct impact on graft survival and transplantation outcomes
• Acquire the communication skills required to break bad news and approach the family to seek consent for organ donation
• Identify the organ recovery procedures and preservation techniques
• Understand the various criteria and systems used for equitable and efficient organ allocation
• Get knowledge about uncontrolled and controlled DCD procedures

Adressed to

Healthcare professionals involved in any of the phases of the organ donation process, particularly in areas with high donors’ potentiality: intensive care units, postoperative recovery, and emergency rooms.

Contents

• Donor detection and identification
• Brain death diagnosis
• Donor management
• Organ viability
• Family approach for organ donation
• Organ recovery and preservation techniques
• Organ allocation
• Donation after circulatory death

Educational Methodology

• Flexible and interactive learning methodology combining both live and self-paced activities
• Contents divided into different topics and delivered gradually through our virtual campus
• Real-time sessions once a week guided by our team of experts
• Gamification, case study and other active learning strategies
• Group activities

Faculty

• National and International professionals with a high experience in teaching and in the donation and transplantation field
• Heads of donation units, emergency rooms, intensive care units and transplantation departments
• Donor and transplant coordinators from countries with donation rates higher than 20 pmp, such as Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, the US and Australia, among others
• Representatives from international scientific societies

Academic Qualification

A DTI diploma that can be validated within the International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs, Tissues, and Cells by the Universitat de Barcelona, equivalent to 15 ECTS.