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Organ transplant management
department

We support and manage organ donation by donating brain death donors, and conduct fair and appropriate long term distribution process to select recipients.

Korean Network for Organ Sharing

• We fairly allocate organs which were donated by the brain death donos to the patients who need to be transplanted. There are 8 kind organs which can be transplanted, Those are kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, langerhans, small intestine and cornea. Specific duties are those.
  • support to the consent of organ donation of the brain death patients
  • management of the patients who are registered to the waiting lists to be transplanted
  • regulation of the selection criteria of recipients who need to be transplanted
  • supervision of the transplantation hospital and HOPO(hospital based organ procurement organization)
  • education to the co-ordinator of the hospital

Brain death's Donation Flow Chart

1. 1. Institution of Brain death
2. 2. Organ-Acquiring Institution
3. 3. KONOS
4. 4. Organ-Acquiring Institution Iinstitution for brain death judgement
5. 5. Corpse Delivery
6. 6. Brain death management Institution
7. 7. Organ transplantation medical Institution
8. 8. KONOS

Hospital for brain death predictor

1. 1. Brain death predictor occurrence
2. 2. Report brain death donors

   Korea organ donation agency(KODA)

   • Donation Agreement
   • Donor management
   • Support for brain death judgment
3. 3. Selection of transplant recipients
4. 4. Notification of transplant recipients

   Korean networks for organ sharing (KONOS)

   • Selection of transplant recipients through KONOS-network
   • Create list of recipients, check if they want to be transplanted
5. 5. Organ removal and transfer
6. 6. Organ transplant and result notificati

   Organ transplantation medical institution

   Management of transplant recipients