Abstract:
Objective To explore the role of professional organ procurement nurses in organ donation and procurement efforts.
Methods The data of donors who underwent organ donation before and after setting up professional organ procurement nurses in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University were retrospectively analyzed. The 215 donors who underwent organ donation from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022 after setting up professional organ procurement nurses were used as the observation group, and the 203 donors who underwent organ donation from September 1, 2020 to August 31, 2021 before setting up professional organ procurement nurses were used as the control group. The donor sex, age, primary disease, and the organ procurement operation time, organ warm ischemia time and organ transport time were compared between the two groups.
Results There were no statistically differences in sex, age and primary disease between the two groups (all P>0.05). In the control group and the observation group, there were 176 and 185 donors underwent combined liver and kidney procurement, and the operation time was (36±4) and (32±4) min, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant (t=10.21, P<0.05). Among them, there were 124 and 82 Chinese Ⅱ and Chinese Ⅲ organ donations, respectively, and the organ warm ischemia time was (8.6±1.5) and (8.2±1.7) min, and the difference was statistically significant (t=1.99, P<0.05). In the control group and the observation group, 34 and 76 organs were transferred to the external transplantation center, and the organ transfer time was (6.0±0.8) and (5.1±1.0) h, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant (t=5.47, P<0.05).
Conclusion Professional organ procurement nurses play an active role in promoting organ donation and procurement, providing a solid foundation for the quantity and quality assurance of organ donation and transplantation, and providing a practical basis for organ donation specialization, organ procurement organization construction discipline, and transplantation discipline systematization.
Key words:
Organ procurement organization,
Organ donation,
Professional organ procurement nurse
Ling Bai, Guozhen Chen, Jinjiang Zhu, Haiping Liu, Chenguang Ding, Hua Wang. Preliminary exploration of the work of professional organ procurement nurses[J]. Chinese Journal of Transplantation(Electronic Edition), 2023, 17(02): 94-97.