The donor potential of twenty six donor bases in the Russian Federation: external audit (a pilot project)

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Rationale: The imbalance between the need for donor organs and their current availability is a growing problem for all countries. An assessment of potential donor numbers is considered to be an important step towards better understanding of the problem as a whole at the national scale. This would help to build up a concept of a successful strategy to resolve this inequity.

Aim: To analyze the use of external audit of the efficacy of identification of potential organ donors with confirmed brain death.

Materials and methods: As a part of a pilot project aimed to increase the efficacy of donor bases of the Russian Federal Medical Biological Agency (FMBA), we retrospectively analyzed 5932 medical files of patients who died from 2014 to 2018 in the departments of resuscitation and intensive care units of 26 medical establishments serving as a donor bases in Moscow, Orenburg, Saratov, Abakan, Stavropol and FMBA of Russia. The probability of brain death was assessed with a special QAPDD (Quality Assurance Program in the Deceased Donation Process) technique focused on organ donation after brain death which is used for external audit in Spanish hospitals.

Results: Clinical manifestation of brain death were identified in 20.3% (95% confidence interval (CI) 18.4–22.4) of the patients aged 18 to 65 years with severe primary and secondary brain injury who died in the departments of resuscitation and had been maintained on mechanical ventilation at least 12 hours until their death was confirmed. The rate of potential donor identification with clinical manifestations of brain death in the donating in-patient departments was 12% (95% CI 10.5–13.7) of those who died with severe primary and secondary brain injury. The external audit performed in 26 donating in-patient departments, has shown that 41% (95% CI 35.8–46.4) of potential donors with brain death were not identified.

Conclusion: With the use of the QAPDD technique in our study, we found that 41% of potential donors were not identified in the Russian in-patient clinics participating in organ donation. Based on the information obtained during the audit of medical files in intensive care units, we can make realistic conclusions on the current system of organ donation, identify potential pitfalls in the identification procedures of potential donors, increase the efficacy of donation process, and to improve the system as a whole. The process could become effective only through the activities of specially trained donor hospital transplant coordinators.

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V. L. Vinogradov

State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center

Author for correspondence.
Email: v.l.vinogradov@gmail.com

Victor L. Vinogradov – MD, PhD, Anesthesiologist, Surgical Department for the Coordination of Donation of Organs and (or) Human Tissues; Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical and Intensive Care, Institute of Postgraduate Professional Education

23 Marshala Novikova ul., Moscow, 123098

Tel.: +7 (916) 384 77 09

Russian Federation

K. K. Gubarev

State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center

Email: fake@neicon.ru

Konstantin K. Gubarev – MD, PhD, Head of the Surgical Department for the Coordination of Donation of Organs and (or) Human Tissues

23 Marshala Novikova ul., Moscow, 123098

Russian Federation

A. I. Zakhlevnyy

State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center

Email: fake@neicon.ru

Artur I. Zakhlevnyy – MD, Surgeon, Surgical Department for the Coordination of Donation of Organs and (or) Human Tissues

23 Marshala Novikova ul., Moscow, 123098

Russian Federation

D. S. Svetlakova

State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center

Email: fake@neicon.ru

Daria S. Svetlakova – MD, Surgeon, Surgical Department for the Coordination of Donation of Organs and (or) Human Tissues

23 Marshala Novikova ul., Moscow, 123098

Russian Federation

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