Organ Donation Flashcards
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)
- established by congress in 1984
- facilitates organ matching/allocation process
- collects and manages data about organ donation and transplantation
- professional and public education
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
- administers the OPTN under contract with health resources and services admin of the US department of health and human services
- develop policy
- monitor and enforce processes of OPTN
- maintain OPTN membership and review application
- organ transplant centers HAVE to be members of this
organ most transplanted as of 2020
kidney
organs transplanted from most to least frequent
- kidney
- liver
- pancreas
- kidney/pancreas
- heart
- lung
- heart/lung
- intestine
current waiting list for all organs
117,204
demand is HIGH
allograft/homograft
-tissue for transplant derived from a non-twin donor of the same species
autograft
- tissue for transplant derived from the recipient
- example = burn patient skin graft
orthotopic
-implanting an organ in the anatomic position after the native organ is removed
heterotopic
-implanting an organ leaving the native organ in place
xenograft/heterograft
- tissue grafted from one species to another
- example is using pig valve for valve replacements
- also some full organ transplant from animal to human
Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) antigens
- cell surface glycoproteins that establish immunologic identity
- class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) A-B-C classic transplant antigens
- class II HLA DR-DQ-DP on activated t cells are antibodies that will attack foreign objects
major blood group antigens
ABO potent transplant antigens
Kidney HLA tissue typing
- ABO and HLA matching, T-Cell cross match and PRA (panel reactive antibody profile)
- also pancreas and ideally lung (but sometimes not lung because time is of the essence)
heart/liver HLA tissue typing
-ABO and other factors such as size/urgency
types of organ donors
- cadaveric; donation after brain death (DBD)
- non-heart beating donor; donation after cardiac death (DCD)
- living donor - kidney paired donation (sometimes liver too)
cadaveric or donation after brain death
- previously healthy
- brain death established
- negative for extracranial malignancy
- absence of untreatable infection
donor mechanism of injury in DBD
usually violent in some way - MVC, GSW, asphyxiation
determination of brain death history
- first talked about in mid 1950s
- Harvard med school published criteria for brain death in 1968 because this is when 1st heart transplant occurred
- president commission for the study of ethical problems in medicine 1981; defined brain as primary organ
what must be done to determine brain death
- r/o reversible cerebral dysfunction
- nothing else that could be masking as brain death
- hypothermia
- hypotension
- metabolic/endocrine instability
- drug OD
- R/O and like that for 12-14 hours then can proceed with brain death testing
criteria on brain death exam
- comatose - unresponsive to verbal stimuli
- absence of cerebral cortical function - non-responsive to painful stimulus; absence of spontaneous movement
- loss of brain stem function - reflexes
- supporting studies - EEG and cerebral flow studies; sometimes HAVE to do this
neurological absence of brain stem function (also part of brain death exam)
- pupillary response to light
- corneal reflex
- oculocephalic reflex absent, dolls eye response
- oculovestibular reflex absent, cold caloric test
- gag and cough reflex
- absent respiratory reflex (apnea test)