title: The profile of potential organ and tissue donors.
abstract: This study aimed to characterize donors according to gender, age group, cause of brain death; quantify donors with hypernatremia, hyperpotassemia and hypopotassemia; and get to know which organs were the most used in transplantations. This quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and retrospective study was performed at the Organ Procurement Organization of the University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital das Clínicas. Data from the medical records of 187 potential donors were analyzed. Cerebrovascular accidents represented 53.48% of all brain death causes, sodium and potassium disorders occurred in 82.36% of cases and 45.46% of the potential donors were between 41 and 60 years old. The results evidenced that natural death causes exceeded traumatic deaths, and that most donors presented sodium and potassium alterations, likely associated to inappropriate maintenance.
authors: Hospital da Clínicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. edvaldoleal@uol.com.br
authors: Edvaldo Leal de
authors: EL
authors: Moraes
authors: Leonardo Borges de Barros E
authors: LB
authors: Silva
authors: Tatiana Cristine de
authors: TC
authors: Moraes
authors: Nair Cordeiro dos Santos da
authors: NC
authors: Paixão
authors: Nelly Miyuki Shinohara
authors: NM
authors: Izumi
authors: Aparecida de Jesus
authors: Ade J
authors: Guarino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult