Effectiveness of an Education Program on Donation and Transplant Aimed at Students of the Nursing Degree Course.

Background: Health workers' awareness and knowledge of transplant medicine can improve people's sensitivity and reduce their degree of opposition to donations. The medical literature contains numerous examples of education programs aimed at university students. This work describes the experience of an education program for students of the second and third year of a nursing degree course.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to organ donation: a case report.

Hemodynamic instability is a frequent complication in potential organ donors. Despite maximal medical therapy, it can lead to cardiac arrest with consequent loss of organs. In this study we present the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circulation (ECMO) as a bridge to organ procurement in a potential donor with hemodynamic instability.

Organ donation and transplantation in migrants: Piedmont reality from 2004 to 2011.

Background: Over the last 20 years, an increasing number of people have immigrated into Italy. On January 1, 2011, there were 4,570,317 foreign residents in Italy, including 398,910 in the Piedmont region (Italian National Statistics Institute data). The Romanian community was the largest, followed by the Moroccan and Albanian ones.

Organ and tissue donation in migrants: advanced course for cross-cultural mediators.

Between 2004 and 2010 in Piedmont (Italy Northern Region) 1556 brain-death situations were reported, including 113 (7.3%) in migrants as potential organ and tissue donors. The health staff often has to face migrants, who show great cultural differences and language difficulties.

Organ donation awareness project for Piedmont high school students.

Foreword: Law no. 91 of April 1, 1999 confirmed the principle of citizens' free choice and awareness with regards the donation of their own organs and tissue. Many studies have shown that information/communication programs aimed at secondary school students are able to significantly increase their propensity toward donation.