Organ and Tissue Donation in Argentina: An Act of Solidarity and Hope View PDF

Health professionals play a crucial role in organ donation, it is an effort that involves multiple actors where we can all do something for those waiting for a transplant.

Law number 27,447 “Donation of organs, tissues and hemopoietic cells”, sanctioned in November 2018 is part of the public health policies and INCUCAI establishes strategies to promote the generation of donors within the Institutions, counting on the figure of the procurement coordinator [1].

We must update the way of seeing medicine for after death, understanding the need for donors can be the key to saving other lives. This is how the donation processes begin, with the commitment of the Professionals who with their skill and experience can identify patients with brain death (BD). Their communication is essential and is part of the first link in the donation process [2].

This is where the role of intensive care, UCO, shock room begins, places where there are the means to support with ARM (mechanical respiratory assistance) and monitoring equipment that allows artificially maintaining donors, for beating heart operations of intra-thoracic and abdominal organs, depending on the characteristics of death, given that there are medical and legal contraindications [3] that will determine the possibility of donation. For this reason, only 4 cases out of 4,000 deaths are carried out.