Specialists in the postoperative period of transplantation in intensive care meet in Santiago de Compostela.

1st Forum of transplantation in care intensive.


– in the year 2010, more than 4,000 transplants have made in Spain

-Galicia is one of the communities that is in the lead in number of donations per million inhabitants

-transplanted patients are served in the postoperative period by anaesthetists, being this key period in the success of the graft and intensivistas

Madrid, 2011-October yesterday Thursday 20 October from 8.30 hours, took place in the Hotel A Quinta da Auga, in Santiago de Compostela, the 1st Forum of transplantation in intensive care, which will feature leading experts in the field of critical care of the 7 main Spanish hospitals with activity in the area of organ transplants.

The transplants in intensive care Forum, organized by Dr. Jordi Rello, head of intensive care service of the Hospital Barcelona Valle Hebron University , is accredited by the Centre for research in biomedicine in lung disease network ( CIBERES ), dependent of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Ministry of science and innovation) and sponsored by Astellas.

This forum was created with the intention of having continuity and to serve as a communications network in order to launch initiatives of scientific interest and become a forum for discussion of the problem that arises in the care of patients transplanted during the postoperative period in intensive care units.

This 1st Forum focused on the lung transplant and it counted with the presence of Dr. Marcos Restrepo, pulmonologist in the Veterans Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA, which introduced the American experience and revised infectious complications of lung transplantation at UCI.

Intensive care units play an important role in the postoperative period of lung, liver and heart transplant patients. This forum was created with the intention of improving communication between practitioners involved in your care and facilitate the implementation of initiatives to improve the treatment as well as knowledge of the situation in Spain epidemiology, Pharmacotherapy, predictors of efficacy and benchmarking of best practices.

During the Forum showed the results of a collaborative research project, and Dr. Rello presented proposals to launch, at least two cooperative research projects in the ICU lung transplantation. Acute respiratory failure in lung transplantation may be due to primary graft dysfunction, humoral rejection, cellular rejection or lung infections. We want to identify biomarkers to differentiate these conditions and to optimize treatment antibiotic, antifungal and immunosupresor ”, says Dr. Rello, who adds that they aim to develop a research project to improve the conditions of the lungs in donors and to reduce waiting lists. The papers will be published in the form of review in a series in medicine intensive. articles