Abu-Ali Sina foundation is a full-service charity, academic, research and medical foundation that is ready to offer upmost services to patients. It is located in south of the country in Sadra city, Shiraz, Fars province. The purpose is providing and promoting society’s health which has been started its activities from 2018.
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Organ Transplant Coordination Unit

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Organ Transplant Coordination Unit

Organ Transplant Coordination Department of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences started to work as the first transplantation coordination unit in Iran since 1990. This department has a vital role in training coordinators across the country and in organ donation culturing after brain death. The organ transplant coordinating department including five units as in:

brain death identification, obtaining consent from the brain death patient’s family, pre-transplant coordination unit, post-transplant coordination unit, database and research unit.

This department has played a leading role in the country through endless efforts of experts and qualified personnel.

The tasks description of each unit is described below:

  • Brain Death Identification Unit:
    • In-person and telephone rounds of Shiraz hospitals.
    • Tracking the health condition of patients with consciousness level below 5 with severe brain injury and giving a report to the center.
    • Recording daily activities of identifying patients with consciousness level below 5 with severe brain injury in the health care monitoring system.
    • Being in contact with the treatment team based on the training provided.
    • Assessing the suspected brain death cases reported by hospitals, including the cause of hospitalization, time of brain death, medical and non-clinical actions taken, clinical examinations and studying patient records and tests since admission.
    • Performing additional tests for patients with suspected brain death to confirm brain death
    • Having a continuous communication with representatives of providing transplant organ units in other cities of Fars province.
    • Monitoring the cooperation of the origin hospitals with the provision unit according to the guidelines approved by the Ministry of Health.
    • Taking care of brain death patients and the necessary medication-care actions.
    • Cooperating with an anesthesiologist for visiting brain death patient and presenting a care plan.
    • Having effective and supportive communication with the family of brain death patient.
    • Obtaining consent of brain death patient’s family.
    • Transferring the brain death patient from origin hospital to brain death intensive care unit.
    • Coordinating the brain death confirmation team for confirming a “brain death”.
    • Transferring a brain death patient from the brain death intensive care unit to the operating room for organ harvesting.
    • Monitoring the performance and completing the checklist of an ambulance for brain death transmission
    • Contributing in discharge of brain death patients and taking necessary steps to transfer brain death patients to forensic medicine and cemetery.
    • Monitoring the brain death intensive care unit.
    • Submitting annual PMP (per million person) reports
    • Organizing meetings to evaluate the causes of not getting to the point with brain death cases.
    • Organizing training courses about brain death and organ donation for physicians and related personnel in Fars province hospitals.
    • Participating in cultural events to promote the organ donation culture in the Society.
    • Troubleshooting the brain death recognition centers and related hospitals and transferring problems to the transplant and specific diseases management.
  • Pre-transplant coordination unit:
    • Completing the organ needed patients’ documents and submitting them to the Organ Transplant Commission.
    • Filling patient documents and making a list of organ needed patients.
    • Coordinating an organ transplantation from live donor.
    • Coordinating an organ transplantation from brain death patient.
    • Coordinating to hold necessary medical commission for transplanted patients.
    • Coordinating the transplant surgery team for harvesting the needed organs.
    • Booking tickets and coordinating a driver for transferring the surgeons to the other centers.
    • Providing the transferring equipment needed for organ transplant and sending them to other centers.
    • Inviting patients in need of organ transplantation and preparing them for transplant surgery.
    • Coordinating with surgical and anesthesia team and the transplant operation room in case of transplant organ existence.
    • Reserving blood and informing hospitalize wards in case of transplant organ existence.
    • Coordinating with other organ provision centers for harvesting the organs.
    • Updating organ transplant list and renewing patient records in organ transplant list.
    • Holding training sessions every week on pre-transplantation care, including drug identification, medication and related questions, and presenting educational booklet.
    • Following up the patients’ condition and pre-transplantation tests and prioritizing documents based on patient status.
    • Presenting one of the transplant coordinators in the Commission.
    • Telephone answering the non-transplanted patients’ question and guiding them.
    • Following up the hospitalized patients’ status and consulting with transplant surgery team.
  • Post-transplant coordination unit:
    • Preparing and filing records of transplanted patients after transplanting and discharging.
    • Following up the post-transplant treatment of patients in transplant clinic.
    • Training medication and any medication changes, and conducting necessary reviews after each commission.
    • Holding training sessions every week on post-transplant care, including drug identification, medication and related questions, and presenting educational CD based on the patient-educated materials.
    • Informing and posting educational materials about transplantation on the post-transplant patient education channel.
    • Following up the patients’ status and their post-transplant tests.
    • Recording transplanted patient’s tests information in the file and send it to the commission for examination.
    • Contacting the patient to inform them about the commission’s comment.
    • Presenting one of the transplant coordinators in the Commission.
    • Following up the hospitalized patients and consulting with transplant team.
    • Telephone answering to the transplanted patients’ questions and guiding them.
  • Database:
    • Registering the organ donor data in approved forms by the Ministry of Health.
    • Registering the organ recipient data in approved forms by the Ministry of Health.
    • Registering data of patients in transplant list.
    • Cooperating in research projects of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
    • Research Unit:
    • Developing a research proposal on goals, questions, assumptions, sampling methods and determining sample size and table of variables and methods of data analysis and data collection tools and techniques.
    • Designing data entry file in the desired software.
    • Analyzing theses and research projects with statistical software based on the foreseen goals in the proposal.
    • Designing and editing the results of research articles.

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