Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Organ and tissue donation depends on non-transplant clinicians to identify and timeously refer potential donors and to counsel families compassionately about the prognosis at end of life. Organ donation referral is often felt to be beyond the capacity of district-level hospital services. In this ca...
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| author | D Thomson T du Toit F McCurdie M Reyneke E Muller A Brink E du Plooy |
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Organ and tissue donation depends on non-transplant clinicians to identify and timeously refer potential donors and to counsel families compassionately about the prognosis at end of life. Organ donation referral is often felt to be beyond the capacity of district-level hospital services. In this case series, we report on four referrals from a geographically remote, public sector district-level hospital, and review the identification, referral and consent process of potential donors after brain death, and also donors after circulatory death. For the one successfully consented donor we report on the donor work-up and management, and the outcome of the organ recovery and organ allocation process.
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| spelling | doaj.art-82394a53acc441fa99733379cb2e87bc2024-01-02T16:01:02ZengSouth African Medical AssociationSouth African Medical Journal0256-95742078-51352022-12-011121210.7196/SAMJ.2022.v112i12.16685Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South AfricaD Thomson0T du Toit1F McCurdie2M Reyneke3E Muller4A Brink5E du Plooy6Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South AfricaTransplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South AfricaGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South AfricaGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South AfricaTransplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South AfricaKnysna Provincial District Hospital, Eden District, Western Cape, South AfricaKnysna Provincial District Hospital, Eden District, Western Cape, South Africa; Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics and Law, University of Verona, Italy Organ and tissue donation depends on non-transplant clinicians to identify and timeously refer potential donors and to counsel families compassionately about the prognosis at end of life. Organ donation referral is often felt to be beyond the capacity of district-level hospital services. In this case series, we report on four referrals from a geographically remote, public sector district-level hospital, and review the identification, referral and consent process of potential donors after brain death, and also donors after circulatory death. For the one successfully consented donor we report on the donor work-up and management, and the outcome of the organ recovery and organ allocation process. https://samajournals.co.za/index.php/samj/article/view/538organs |
| spellingShingle | D Thomson T du Toit F McCurdie M Reyneke E Muller A Brink E du Plooy Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa South African Medical Journal organs |
| title | Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_full | Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_short | Transplant Unit, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| title_sort | transplant unit division of general surgery department of surgery faculty of health sciences university of cape town south africa |
| topic | organs |
| url | https://samajournals.co.za/index.php/samj/article/view/538 |
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