Kadavradan Organ Bağışında Aile Algısı ve İletişim

Evaluation of Organ Donation Rates Among in Patients with Anticipated Imminent Brain Death

“…This may be because the families in our study were informed of the process by detailed briefings during every stage of the clinical progress. As a general rule, it is not recommended to postpone the family interview following the declaration of brain death (13); however, different approaches may be required for families coming from different social backgrounds. Especially in studies in Turkey, it has been observed that complicated relationships among family members can either facilitate or hinder this process.…”

“…Further, patients with brain death had significantly lower APACHE II scores at the time of ICU admission [median 18 (10-36)] compared to patients who died without BD [median 19 (8-32)] (p=0.011). However, there were no significant differences between patients with and without BD regarding SOFA scores assessed 24 hours after ICU admission [9 (4-17) vs. 9 (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19), respectively] (p=0.238). The time between ICU admission and the time the GCS score decreased to 3 was 16 (0-336) hours in the group that consented for organ donation and 24 (0-192) hours in the group that did not consent for organ donation; this difference was not significant (p=0.547).…”

“…For those patients whose families did not consent for organ donation, the time until cardiac arrest was a median of 6 (1-16) hours. For those patients whose families did consent for organ donation, the time until organ retrieval was a median of 7 (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14) hours.…”