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Transplant Coordinators’ Training in Hyderabad – Day IV
This session was followed by a short session by Dr. Surendra Reddy from the Forensic Science Lab. He explained the importance of forensics in medico-legal cases, the steps involved in post mortem.
After lunch, we had two Transplant coordinators Ms. Jayalakshmi from Global Hospitals and Ms. Parvathy from NIMS who shared their personal experiences with us. They discussed some real life cases pointing out why and how there were communication breakdowns and where it could be improved.
The last session was taken over by Dr. K. Gayathri from the Immunology Department, and Consultant Lifeline Tapadia Speciality. It was a great session with Dr. Gayathri taking the whole lot of nurses, social workers into the world of HLA cross matching – it did not matter that some of us did not have a biology background; the explanation was very lucid right from the very first step! We learnt how proteins on the cell surface or membrane are unique for every individual, and how if a different protein structure is encountered, the body immediately destroys the intruder. The greatest obstacle to Transplantation was the body rejecting the donor organ as ‘not-self’ and this very HLA matching would give doctors a good idea of how the body will react to the new donor organ. The session ended with Dr. Gayathri giving us details of other tests that should be done during an Organ Transplantation which included Blood Grouping, Viral Screen, Disease Screen and Storage of Samples.
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