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. 2014 Jan-Mar;26(1):21-7.
doi: 10.5935/0103-507x.20140004.

[Profile of effective donors from organ and tissue procurement services]

[Article in Portuguese]
Simey de Lima Lopes Rodrigues  1 , Jose Ben-Hur de Escobar Ferraz Neto  2 , Luiz Antonio da Costa Sardinha  1 , Sebastião Araujo  3 , Helder Jose Lessa Zambelli  1 , Ilka de Fátima Santana Ferreira Boin  3 , Maria Valeria de Omena Athayde  1 , Eliete Bombarda Bachega Montone  1 , Marcia Raquel Panunto  1
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[Profile of effective donors from organ and tissue procurement services]

[Article in Portuguese]
Simey de Lima Lopes Rodrigues et al. Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2014 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Objective: To characterize the profile of effective organ and tissue donors and to understand which organs and tissues were donated for transplantation.

Methods: This was a quantitative, descriptive, exploratory, retrospective study that analyzed clinical data from 305 donors between January 2006 to December 2010. The data were then analyzed using descriptive analyses, generating frequency tables, measures of position (mean, minimum and maximum) and measures of dispersion (standard deviation) for data that was social and clinical in nature.

Results: There was an overall predominance of white (72%) and male (55%) individuals between the ages of 41 and 60 years (44%). The primary cause of brain death was cerebrovascular accident (55%). In the patient history, 31% of the patients were classified as overweight, 27% as hypertensive and only 4.3% as having diabetes mellitus. Vasoactive drugs were used in 92.7% of the donors, and the main drug of choice was noradrenaline (81.6%). Hyperglycemia and hypernatremia were diagnosed in 78% and 71% of the donors, respectively.

Conclusion: Significant hemodynamic changes were found, and the results indicate that the use of vasoactive drugs was the main strategy used to control these changes. Furthermore, most donors presented with hyperglycemia and hypernatremia, which were frequently reported in association with brain death. The persistent nature of these findings suggests that the organ donors were inadequately maintained.

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Distribution of organ and tissue donors according to age range.
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