The centre hospitalier de Montluçon conducts each year a score of samples of organs and tissues. Céline Planche-Béthoule is the only nurse coordinator, donations and levies. A vital role since it ensures the smooth functioning of the different steps upstream of the transplant.
In Montluçon, hospitals, public and private, cooperate to increase the capacity of resuscitation
Difficulties to detect the donors
She explains : “In Montluçon, we do not do samples. The grafts are in the big CHU. For the removal of organs, we have one to two patients per year. But our biggest activity is the removal of corneas with twenty individuals taken per year. In terms of the collection of horny, we have the third largest activity of the ancient Auvergne region behind Clermont and Mills. ”
But the nurse coordinator hopes to see these numbers increase even more.
We would like to implement the collection of bones and ligaments. But this still remains to be studied.
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She would also like to see that potential donors be better identified. “Today, we have difficulties to detect potential donors. It loses patients. And then, there are still a lot of reticence on the part of families. “Hence the importance of raising awareness for organ donation.
“People lack information. Often, the families have a fear that is destroyed the body of their loved one, then they refuse. In addition, in the case of a brain dead, the heart still beats. Some have the impression that their loved one is still alive, that he is in the coma, which is not the case. “
The steps. After the death of the patient and the family agreement is obtained, several tests are carried out. The patient is placed in the icu and all its functional organs are evaluated. A balance sheet is made every two or three hours and the results are sent to the Agency of biomedicine, which will search for one or more recipients (for a patient, there can be up to seven recipients). The mounted folder, a medical team from a university hospital will come to recover the bodies.
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Laura Morel
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