Organ Donor

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This page is about the pre-ICD10 diagnosis coding schema. See the ICD10 Diagnosis List, or the following for similar diagnoses in ICD10:Organ donor (organ/tissue donation by the donor)

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Category/Organ System:	Category: Other Medical (old)
Type:	Medical Problem
Main Diagnosis:	Organ Donor
Sub Diagnosis:
Diagnosis Code:	874-00
Comorbid Diagnosis:
Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10):
Program:	Critical Care and Medicine
Status:	Currently Collected

Major organ donors (ie not just eyes, skin or bones).

This data is reported in the Quarterly report.

Collection process for Organ Donor who has been declared braindead

• Diagnosis: brain death or death has been declared
• Patient status: Expired
• Diagnosis codes: braindead (524) & organ donor (874).
• Discharge date: date and time patient is sent from ICU to the operating room (see #Background)
• Discharge to: leave blank
• Not all Organ Donors have a bronchscopy done, so don't automatically assume and code it. The only time it is done is if there are considering the lungs. This is according to a Respirologist from STB ICU.

Collection process for living Organ Donor (donor and recipient)

• content needed for "Collection process for living Organ Donor (donor and recipient)" section. Ttenbergen 15:29, 16 October 2008 (CDT)

Background

Organ donation is the removal of the tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting.

Organs that can be procured include: the heart, intestines, kidneys, lungs, liver, pancreas. These are procured from a brain dead donor or a donor where the family has given consent for donation after cardiac death, known as non-heart-beating donation.

The following tissues can be procured: bones, tendons, corneas, heart valves, femoral veins, great saphenous veins, small saphenous veins, pericardium, skin grafts, and the sclera (the tough, white outer coating surrounding the eye). These are only procured after death.

Organs that can be donated from living donors include part of the liver or pancreas and the kidney.

We are using time patient moved to the OR as discharge time rather than the time brain death is declared in the unit. This was decided when the database program began in the late 1980's because a number of organ donors did not leave ICU for 1-2 days after being declared brain dead and ICU wants to account for bed occupancy and nursing workload for those patients.

For more detailed information about the definition of ORGAN DONATION see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-heart_beating_donation

http://www.organtransplants.org/understanding/

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Organ Donors must be status deceased

• For all brain dead(524) diagnoses at HSC or STB, outcome must be "expired"

• can't imagine a tighter check, can anyone else? Ttenbergen 16:23, 2012 April 16 (CDT)

Organ Donors must be diagnosis brain dead

• If 874(organ donor) Admit or Complication slots, then 524 braindead
• If the two have to happen together should they not just be combined, or one be considered to always be present if the other is? I think we have some other dxs where we don't code the implied conditions, no?Ttenbergen 16:03, 2012 April 16 (CDT)
  • well, braindead does not guarantee proceeding to organ donor (874)Trish Ostryzniuk 17:14, 2012 April 16 (CDT)
    • no, but it sounds like organ donor guarantees brain dead; so, why does it not go without saying?Ttenbergen 17:30, 2012 April 16 (CDT)
      • yes, as of 2009, we are only coding major organ donors, so yes, if organ donor, then must have been declared brain dead.Trish Ostryzniuk 17:33, 2012 April 16 (CDT)

Legacy Data

• January 23.09-as per Dr. Roberts-Only code MAJOR ORGAN donors. We will no longer code eyes, skin or bones donors in the database. TOstryzniuk 19:30, 23 January 2009 (CST)
• discharge-to used to be to OR; we implemented data integrity checks to prevent discharging dead people to locations; it will be assumed that if a patient is coded as on organ donor (code 874) that he went to the OR for organ harvesting.