Analysis of organ transplantation markers and the donation process in the state of Pará

Abstract

Introduction: Even with great advancement, the organ shortage is still a major public health issue. In general, the donation process is defined as the set of actions and procedures that together can effectively change a potential donor into an effective donor. Therefore, it emerged the need to search for the real causes that lead to the great amount of losses of organ donation, and in most cases, this can only be measured by markers. Purpose: To analyze and describe markers used by the Organ Procurement Organization in the State of Pará. Material and methods: This is a cross sectional quantitative survey and descriptive approaching performed by analyzing database from the Organ Demand Organization, Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas “Dr. Waldemar Penna” and its markers as to the amount of potential donors notified to the Transplant Center in the State of Pará, medical contraindication, uncompleted processes, refusal from family and effective donor. The Excel software was used to tab the information attained and the final tabulation of the research, and transforming it into graphs in Word software. Results: The analysis showed an increase of notifications of potential donors; however, there was a reduction in the amount of confirmed brain death due to the increase in the index of uncompleted processes. Conclusion: Among the actions to improve the process it is deployed an intra-hospital Committee at Hospital Municipal de Santarém and continuing educational activities on identification and maintenance of the potential donor.