Researchers investigated whether organs provided Ireland helped to reduce the mortality rate of the waiting list.
Research has discovered that the organ donation and transplant Irish (ODTI) have reduced the mortality rate of the lung transplant waiting list.
ODTI was established six years ago to provide leadership and governance to Irish transplant programs.
A researcher at the heart thoracic surgery at Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin said he wanted to investigate whether the introduction of ODTI in the Ireland health care landscape has led to a decrease in waiting list mortality.
In this study, “new state effects for transplanting to pulmonary shoritators' mortality”, daily. et al From January 2011 to December 2016, a retrospective analysis of all patients listed in the Lung Transplant in the Irish heart and lung transplant program was implemented.
Write in February Irish Medical Journal (IMJ), They said they compared patients listed on pulmonary transplant three years and three years after the establishment of ODTI. The center used was a nationwide heart breast surgery center, and had a common heart chest case road for about 800 cases a year.
Nine consultant heart surgeon works in the unit, of which six are transplanted.
The weekly interdisciplinary team meeting is held with a transplant doctor, a psychiatrist who is interested in transplantation evaluation, social workers, and other medical experts in alliance.
Researchers said their results showed that a total of 259 patients were on the lung transplant list during the research period. Of these, 60 % were transplanted. After the establishment of ODTI, the ranking decreased significantly from 46 % of the ODTI ERA to 33 % after the ODTI formation. Dayly et al He concluded that the decrease in the mortality rate of the waiting list is related to the establishment of ODTI.
They will lead to an increase in government funds, and they will lead to an increase in staff training and “Improvement of donors' awareness and optimization of donors”. He said.
“In addition, the use of expansion donor standards has improved donor use and transplantation,” he added.
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