The profile of potential organ and tissue donors.

Abstract

This study aimed to characterize donors according to gender, age group, cause of brain death; quantify donors with hypernatremia, hyperpotassemia and hypopotassemia; and get to know which organs were the most used in transplantations. This quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and retrospective study was performed at the Organ Procurement Organization of the University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital das Clínicas. Data from the medical records of 187 potential donors were analyzed. Cerebrovascular accidents represented 53.48% of all brain death causes, sodium and potassium disorders occurred in 82.36% of cases and 45.46% of the potential donors were between 41 and 60 years old. The results evidenced that natural death causes exceeded traumatic deaths, and that most donors presented sodium and potassium alterations, likely associated to inappropriate maintenance.

• Authors: Edvaldo Leal de Moraes, Leonardo Borges de Barros E Silva, Tatiana Cristine de Moraes, Nair Cordeiro dos Santos da Paixão, Nelly Miyuki Shinohara Izumi, Aparecida de Jesus Guarino
• Journal: Revista latino-americana de enfermagem (Rev Lat Am Enfermagem) 2009 Sep-Oct Vol. 17 Issue 5 Pg. 716-20 ISSN: 0104-1169 [Print] Brazil
• PMID: 19967223 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Retrospective Studies
• Tissue Donors (statistics & numerical data)
• Young Adult