Guidelines for the assessment and acceptance of potential brain-dead organ donors

Glauco Adrieno Westphal, Valter Duro Garcia, Rafael Lisboa de Souza, Cristiano Augusto Franke, Kalinca Daberkow Vieira, Viviane Renata Zaclikevis Birckholz, Miriam Cristine Machado, Eliana Régia Barbosa de Almeida, Fernando Osni Machado, Luiz Antônio da Costa Sardinha, Raquel Wanzuita, Carlos Eduardo Soares Silvado, Gerson Costa, Vera Braatz, Milton Caldeira Filho, Rodrigo Furtado, Luana Alves Tannous, André Gustavo Neves de Albuquerque, Edson Abdala, Anderson Ricardo Roman Gonçalves, Lúcio Filgueiras Pacheco-Moreira, Fernando Suparregui Dias, Rogério Fernandes, Frederico Di Giovanni, Frederico Bruzzi de Carvalho, Alfredo Fiorelli, Cassiano Teixeira, Cristiano Feijó, Spencer Marcantonio Camargo, Neymar Elias de Oliveira, André Ibrahim David, Rafael Augusto Dantas Prinz, Laura Brasil Herranz, Joel de Andrade, Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira, Associação de Transplante de Brasileira Órgãos

Organ transplantation is the only alternative for many patients with terminal diseases. The increasing disproportion between the high demand for organ transplants and the low rate of transplants actually performed is worrisome. Some of the causes of this disproportion are errors in the identification of potential organ donors and in the determination of contraindications by the attending staff. Therefore, the aim of the present document is to provide guidelines for intensive care multi-professional staffs for the recognition, assessment and acceptance of potential organ donors.