Donors Honored During 20 Years of the Transplant Center

June 28, 2018 – 17:10
"Who are you who have not, but who gave me life? / Who are you?" # Transplant Center # Fire Department

Have you relieved my pain? / Who are you to have my world changed? The verses of the song of kidney transplant recipient Helena Faustino are grateful to the organ and tissue donors. The tributes and thanks were the unanimous gestures of the solemn commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Central Transplant of the State of Ceará, Thursday morning June 28, at the Waldir Arcoverde Auditorium, Secretariat of Health of the Ceara. Helena, who had a kidney transplant for 13 years, sang two of her own songs.

Recognition was also shown during the Ring of Silence by the 2nd lieutenant of the fire department Erivaldo Almeida da Silva and in the speeches of the first heart transplant. Dr. Carlos Alberto Studart Hospital Gomes and Dr. Antonio Alberto Pereira Moura, Coordinator of the Transplant Center, Eliana Regia Barbosa, Deputy Secretary and Executive Secretary of Health of Ceará, Marcos Gadelha and Lilian Beltrão. During these 20 years, 17,638 transplants were performed in Ceará

Antônio, who now lives with the third heart, is in good health and guides other transplants. "What am I telling them? Take care of life as I cared.I am very confident in this great team that still accompanies me today, between nurses and doctors. highlighting "the moment of great joy", Eliana Barbosa highlighted the "20 years of many achievements to save the lives of many people from Ceará and many Brazilians."

"The Transplant Center has gained credibility and today We are a national reference in donation and transplantation. "Marcos Gadelha said the donation and transplant process" is a very complex activity, "he said. importance of multidisciplinary work and acknowledged the response of the population to organ and tissue donations campaigns. "Society has responded to this awareness," he said, Lilian Beltrão also recognition when she said that "our popula This is very favorable, but we want more. "

The Transplant Center's partner institutions, among transplant hospitals, notifying potential donor units, government agencies, among others, have received a certificate of recognition from the Government of Ceará for the "relevant contribution" to the consolidation of Ceará's outstanding position in the National Transplant System (SNT). In a message addressed to the Transplant Center, the Dean of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Henry de Holanda Campos, said: "admiration for the work done in our state in the field of transplants, a feat that highlights not only the enviable statistics, but also the level of our professionals.UFC is proud to participate in this effort and remains ready to contribute, more and more, to consolidate the position of Ceará in the ranking National Transplantation of Organs and Tissues. "

Brazil has the largest public transplantation system in the world, in which most procedures and surgeries are performed with public resources. The State of Ceará is among the states that perform the most organ transplants in the country, with successive registrations and has 62 public, private and philanthropic notifiable hospitals, registered in the National Transplant System / Ministry. of Health.

Donations

In the first quarter of 2018, Ceará regained third place in Brazil in donor count per million inhabitants (pmp), according to a report by the Brazilian Association of Transplantation Organs (ABTO). With 29.7 million donors, Ceará is above the national average over the period, rising from 16.2 million donors from January to March 2018. The goal of the Transplant Center is to increase the number of donors. at least one donor per million of the population each year. The ABTO report points out that at the national level, the target is 18.0 million donors for the year 2018.

Nationwide , Ceará is distinguished in the first quarter of this year mainly in liver transplantation, an increase of 28.3% in the first three months of last year. The state was the second most that did this type of surgery per million population in the badyzed period. There was also an 18.75% increase in kidney transplants performed in Ceará from January to March 2018, compared to the same time interval last year.

Last year, Ceará was the third country in the percentage of donor effectiveness compared to the number of potential donor notifications, with 209 donors, accounting for 38.77% of the 593 notifications. Today, the state has the fourth highest percentage of donors of several organs in Brazil, according to the latest report from ABTO. This has to do with the result of the work of the Intra-Hospital Transplant Tissue and Organ Donation Commissions (CIHDOTT), which help to maintain better conservation of potential donors, and transplant teams, who collaborate to Obtain an index of organ success for transplantation. In order to meet the new standards for the diagnosis of brain death, established by Resolution 2.173 of the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM), in order to meet the new standards for the diagnosis of brain death.

from December 2017, the Transplant Center will hold this week, June 29, the training course on the determination of brain death, from 8 to 18 hours, at the Ceará Emergency Medical School of Fortaleza, to qualify 32 doctors In the diagnosis of brain death

From the CFM resolution, in addition to the neurologist, other specialists such as an intensivist doctor, a neurosurgeon or an emergency physician can diagnose the end of the activity brain of the patient. The procedure change has an impact on the process of organ donation and transplantation, which can only be initiated after the family's consent and confirmation of the patient's brain death after multiple tests. In order to check brain death, two different doctors must perform the clinical examination, the apnea test and the complementary examinations.

The reduction in the number of transplants in Ceará in 2017 is related to the presence of almost all the demand for corneal transplantation in the state in 2016, when the Ministry of Health said that Ceará had "zero queuing" for this type of surgery. Corneal transplants exceeded 60% of total number of transplants in the last two years