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The Philippine Society for Transplant Surgeons organizes multi-organ donor retrieval workshops

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17215503437381721206767317olga-kononenko-EIn4rkoE_r8-unsplash.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><em>Olga Kononenko/Unsplash</em></span></span></span></div><p>“Do not bring your organs to heaven, God knows we need them here.” </p><p>This motto may sound cliché but this is exactly the principle that surrounds the philosophy of deceased (or brain dead) organ donation.  </p><p>With so many patients reaching terminal illness because of end-organ failure, the only hope for survival and prolongation of life would be to receive a new organ either from a living relative or altruistic individual or from someone whose life was ended after an irreversible injury to the brain.  </p><p>With every deceased organ donor, multiple organs may be given to patients who require them, such as the cornea, bones, kidneys, liver, intestines, lungs, heart, and blood vessels.  </p><p>These tissues are very scarce owing to the rising number of patients who are in need of them. </p><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Through the leadership of its president, Dr. Rosemarie O. Rosete-Liquete, the Philippine Society for Transplant Surgeons (PSTS), in its commitment to promote multi-organ donation from the brain-dead source, has organized two “Deceased Donor Multi-organ Retrieval Training Workshops”  over the past year.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2024/6/30/surgical-site-infection-prevention-1649">Surgical Site Infection prevention: Top 5 things to remember before you go under the knife</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The first one was held at the Philippine Center for Advanced Surgery (PCAS) of the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in June 2023 followed by another at the Department of Anatomy Skills Laboratory at the UP-PGH Medical Center last February.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The training workshops are meant to help transplant medical and surgical specialists, transplant nurses and coordinators be familiar with the processes to evaluate and accept a potential deceased organ donation, learn the proper preservation of organs for donation and the surgical procedures to retrieve organs for donation and implantation.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">All surgeons and nurses are acquainted on Operating Room set-up, and the processes for organ retrieval surgery of various organ systems. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">The whole project emphasized the vital role of deceased donation in expanding the organ donor pool and highlighted the importance of collaboration among surgeons from different organ systems, including heart, lung, liver, pancreas, small intestines, and kidney, and the essential role of organ procurement organizations.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2024/6/23/prostate-cancer-an-emerging-concern-but-early-diagnosis-and-treatment-bring-hope-1505">READ: Prostate cancer an emerging concern, but early diagnosis and treatment bring hope</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Hopefully, our government can serve as our ally in this undertaking. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Promotion through education in the social media platform may increase our ability to reach out to our fellow Filipinos in encouraging everyone to volunteer as multi-organ donor. </p><p>By doing so, we can overcome the widening gap between those who require organs and the number of donors who are willing to share themselves for the good of others. </p><div style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><em>--</em></div><div><em>Established in September 1936, the Philippine College of Surgeons is the country&#x27;s premier organization of surgical professionals. PCS has several surgical specialty societies including the Philippine Society for Transplant Surgeons.</em></div>

<p>With every deceased organ donor, multiple organs may be given to patients who require them, such as the cornea, bones, kidneys, liver, intestines, lungs, heart, and blood vessels. </p>

With every deceased organ donor, multiple organs may be given to patients who require them, such as the cornea, bones, kidneys, liver, intestines, lungs, heart, and blood vessels.

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The Philippine Society for Transplant Surgeons organizes multi-organ donor retrieval workshops

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Jose Benito A. Abraham MD FPCS FPUA FPSTS

Published Jul 21, 2024 04:27 PM PHT

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