Nursing assistance in encephal death protocol

Abstract

Introduction: The nurse's role in assisting the potential organ donor is essential throughout the process of organ donation and confirmation, thus becoming essential knowledge about this subject. Objective: to identify priority nursing care in the maintenance of organ donors and in this direction to bring to reflection the importance of nurses' work in ME protocol. Method: This is a bibliographical review of the literature. Scientific articles were searched in the Scielo databases between July and August 2017. Results: 110 scientific articles were found that approached the chosen theme, of which 14 articles were selected. Based on the analysis performed in this research, two major categories emerged: Nursing care centered on the operationalization of the ME Protocol and family approach and Nursing Care in the maintenance of the organ donor potential. Conclusion: during this process it was possible to evidence the care related to the whole process of finding, maintaining and donating organs for transplants. In order to enable strategies to optimize the procurement of organs and tissues for transplantation.