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Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Donor Livers
Published on: May 26, 2015
[Transplant coordinator: organ donation process]
Purificación Gironés-Guillem1, Ramón Camaño-Puig2, Manuel Lillo-Crespo3
1Coordinatión de trasplantes, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
Background:
Spain is a leader in organ donations although it seems that this number does not increase in the same proportion that the waiting list and it is necessary to decrease the refusal situations, which are ~16%.
Method:
Analytic study. We review the reports prepared by the coordinators of transplants archived at the hospital La Fe during the period between May 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007, resulting in conceptualization and categorization.
Results:
Sixty-nine topics were obtained from the point of view of the family and 11 from the point of view of the interviewer. After its conceptualization, codification and classification, we proceeded to create an appropriate text.
Conclusions:
Certain guidelines may be offered that allow us to standardize the action of transplant coordinators during the interview and to be more effective.
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