Caracterização dos potenciais doadores e estrutura de unidades hospitalares que desenvolvem o transplante/Characterization of the potential donors and structure of hospital units that develops the transplantations

Resumen

It was aimed to characterizing potential donors and describing the structure of the units donated of organs and tissues for transplantations. This is a descriptive and quantitative study carried in six hospitals units. The probability consisted of 65 potential donors and the data collection occurred between August 2010 and February 2011. The majority were male (50.8%), with up to 45 years of age (53.8%), whose main cause of Encephalic Death (ED) was vascular encephalic accident (53.9%) and86.2% were assisted in public hospital. Regarding the structure, the physical plant presented as highest inadequacy the climatization (80.5%) and physical space (40.0%). In material resources, it was found the absence mobile radiology, glucometer and hospital bed, both of with the same percentage (32.3%).In the human resources, the smaller quantity was nursing technicians (53.8%) and in the organizational structure there was a lack of care protocols (86.2%). It was concluded that the structure of services where develops the process of transplantation it was find inadequate. For both, becomes necessary to implement of complementary actions in order to improving the structure of the hospitals to better meet patients in ED.