Original Articles October 01, 2010 October 01, 2010

Study of cornea potential donors at the Clinical Hospital of UFPR

DOI: 10.1590/S0034-72802010000500003

PURPOSE: To quantify the potential cornea donor from the different units of Clinical Hospital of the UFPR. METHODS: 369 records of patients who died from april until july of 2005 in the HC-UFPR were analyzed. The medical records of each patient had been evaluated: the clinical evolution, CID-10 and hospital unit of the death. To be considered potential donor (PD) it was used as exclusion criteria the topics cited in the Manual of Transplants (2ª edition-2004) of the State Secretariat of the Health of the State of the Paraná. The PD had been grouped in: date of the death, type of internment and hospital unit. We analyze the amount of PD and total of deaths. RESULTS: Of 369 analyzed records, potential donor (PD) had been considered 70 patients (18.97% of the analyzed handbook total) the units: Center of Intensive Therapy, Center of Half Therapy and ER Adult had been responsible for 62,.8% of the PD. Already the neurosurgery, cardiac emergency and UTI cardiac surgery had presented a relation of PD per death superior than 60%. CONCLUSION: In this study we evidence that as much the units with great number of potential donor (PD) as those with a great relation PD per death are local of choice for an intervention with intention to increase the number of donations in our way.