The Organ and Tissue Procurement Unit of the Regional Hospital of Comodoro Rivadavia carried out a donation in controlled asystole (DAC), in a case considered unprecedented in the history of the province.
This type of intervention, as explained by Lilian Barría, coordinator of that unit, “is“And when the patient has an irreversible situation like in this case, we talk to the family, although we are all donors by law, but the family has to accept the patient’s therapeutic suitability and after that the surgery is performed.”
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Currently, the transplanted organs function correctly in the patients and the kidneys and corneas were destined for patients in the Patagonian region, which produces a virtuous circuit in the public health of the area and sets a precedent in the city.
“More than a week ago we announced in the Hospital hall the importance of donating organs and tissues, today we are spreading the word that people want to donate and in this hospital we can do it,” said Barría, after confirming that The transplant patients were responding correctly to the procedure.
It is an organ donation process where a patient is prepared so that this can be done.
“The patient was hospitalized several weeks ago and unfortunately had an irreversible situation. We spoke with the family, they said yes to the therapeutic adaptation and we began the process of preparing for surgery, which is why it is called donation in controlled asystole,” he described.
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During conversations with the family, the specialists confirmed that the patient had expressed while he was alive that he wanted to donate.
“The work with families, the meetings and talks we have are very sensitive, we analyze not only the medical part but also what the patient’s family knows, so we found out that the patient told a cousin that he wanted to be a donor. organs if something happened to him, although by law we are all donors,” commented the specialist.
For this reason also, the family members accompanied the process understanding that this was going to help other people, and They accepted the patient’s suitability to develop this process.
As in every donation process, there were many who participated, from nurses and doctors from the adult intensive care unit, laboratory, blood bank, imaging specialists, operating room nurses and instruments, maintenance, hospital communication, emergency services. transportation, roads, police, airport, Aerolíneas Argentinas, the UHPROT team as well as Nurse Soledad Velozo, Nurse Geraldine García, Dr. Mariela Subirá, Dr. Pamela La Paz and from a distance Dr. Laura Morales, Dr. José Aringoli (surgeon), Dr. Sergio Clemente (Surgeon and Director of the Regional Hospital) and surgery residents. Also from the Single Ablation and Implant Coordinating Center (CUCAI), the provincial body belonging to the Undersecretariat of Health Programs of the Ministry of Health of Chubut corroborated so that the process is completed.
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“We are very grateful to everyone who collaborated, as well as Iona García from CUCAI who is always available for all the questions we have, it encouraged us to continue and be able to conclude a donation operation of this magnitude, coordinated by Nursing and the most gratifying , that everything has been successful, said Barria
With this process there are 10 transplants that are carried out thanks to the work of the Regional Hospital.
During the first quarter of 2024, the “Víctor Manuel Sanguinetti” Regional Hospital of Comodoro Rivadavia allowed 8 people to improve their quality of life through donation processes carried out by the institution, to which two more are added, with the recent process.
The dissemination, awareness and action regarding organ donation continues because in the province of Chubut there are 101 people on the waiting list to receive organs, 430 patients undergoing dialysis and 248 patients in the process of registering for the waiting list.
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What is controlled asystole donation?
This organ donation process called: donation in controlled asystole (CAD), occurs thanks to technological advances that allow obtaining organs for transplant from donors whose death occurred due to the irreversible cessation of circulatory functions.
In Argentina, Law No. 27,447 on Organ, Tissue and Cell Transplantation has included in article 36 the certification of death by determining the irreversible cessation of circulatory functions or the irreversible cessation of brain functions, as the case may be. Non-asystole organ donation (DCD) has been categorized into different modalities or types, according to the place and circumstances in which the patient’s death occurred.
