A logística da captação de órgãos como fator chave do sucesso em transplantes humanos

Abstract

This project's objective is to demonstrate the decisive interrelation between planning, implementation and product control and storage -- the process called logistics -- of obtaining organs from potential donors and the success of transplant operations. For many patients, an organ transplant is the only way to save their lives. However, the lack of organ donors remains a great obstacle for the effectiveness of transplants,with the lack of information and the prejudice greatly limiting the number of donations received from individuals with brain death. In this way, the possibility of loss of donated organs due to technical problems in the extraction process have to be extinguished, thus making it impossible to equivocate the singularities and fragility of the process. Therefore, in this project, it was possible to observe that the studies of logistics related to the demand of organs are still incipient, which explains the difficulties to establish the inter discipline needed for new advances, in the area ofhealth.