Study of potential organ retrieval and notification of a state hospital in Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Purpose: To describe performance markers related to the notification of brain death and captation of agencies in relation to deaths occurred in the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Getulio Vargas (HEGV-RJ) from January to September of 2010. Methods: Quantitative retrospective analysis on a descriptive study. Patients’ records interned in the UCI of the HEGV between January and September, 2010 were analyzed. Results: From January to September, 2010, the Central Transplantation Office received 364 notifications of brain death. Hospital Getúlio Vargas was responsible for 32 of these notifications, representing 8.8% of the total. Hospital Getúlio Vargas has been shown to be fun- damental for the improvement of these numbers in the state. Solely, that hospital is above the average of effective donations with 46.4%, when the average expected by ABTO is 40%. Conclusion: It is believed that with a higher training of professionals and having exclusive professionals in the active search, maintenance of the potential donor and interviewing families, such amount of notifications, retrieval and effective donations will increase the statistics of transplants in the state of Rio De Janeiro.