Organizing a posthumous organ donation in the Nizhny Novgorod region: to the tenth anniversary of the Volga coordination center of organ and tissue donation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of posthumous organ donation and is prepared for the decade of the Volga coordination center of organ and tissue donation. The article analyzes the system of interaction of participants in the organ donation program existing in the region and highlights its features. The authors emphasized that the effectiveness of the system of collaboration between the participants of organ donation existing in Nizhegorodskaya region is mainly determined by the activity of doctors’ donor bases. According to the results of the survey of doctors, the most significant factor determining their inclination to collaborate with the Center of organ donation is the direction by the administration of the medical organization (59,3±3,0%), while only 11,1±1,3%. The active work of the specialists of the organ donation center made it possible to successfully solve a whole range of issues of interdepartmental cooperation and ensure the systematic implementation of organ transplants. At the same time, there are numerous problems whose solution is to optimize the use of donor resources in the Nizhny Novgorod region and a number of neighboring regions.