On May 13, 2017, MOHAN Foundation along with Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine co-hosted the Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplant (FORT) workshop named "A Critical Care Workshop on Declaration of brain death and donor optimization" at Fortis Hospital Mulund, Mumbai.
The faculty enlightened the participants on the Role of critical care teams in organ donation and importance of early identification of brain death, Brain death certification protocols, Difficulties in brain death testing, donor optimization, Importance of involving all stakeholders in organ donation, Progress of organ donation in Maharashtra, Grief counselling of family, Concept of Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) and Brain death in children. The programme also included a panel discussion on Brain Death: Unified diagnosis of death, documentation, legal aspects, conflicts as well as a position paper on Guidelines for Donor Maintenance in Hospitals was launched at the event.
The faculty included Dr. Vimal Bhandari- Director, NOTTO, Dr. Suresh Badhan- Consultant Coordination, NOTTO, Dr. Gauri Rathod- Assistant Director, Directorate of Health Services Maharashtra, Dr. Sunil Shroff- Founder and managing Trustee Mohan Foundation and Senior urologist, Dr. Avnish Seth- Director Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant., Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fortis Memorial and Research Institute, Gurgaon, Dr. Vijay Palaniswami- Director of Intensive care, Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, Jaipur, Dr. S K Mathur- Zonal Transplant and Coordination Committee, Mumbai and Senior Liver Transplant and Hepato Biliary Surgeon, Dr. Kapil Zirpe- HOD and Director Neuro ICU Ruby Hall, Pune, President Indian Society of Critical Care medicine, Dr. Sujata Patwardhan- Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization and HOD Urology, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Dr. Anand Nadkarni- Senior Psychiatrists, Communication Expert and Author Institute of Psychological Health, Thane, Dr. Suresh Vasanth- Chief Anesthesiologist and Intensivist Liver Transplant, Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai and Dr. Daruis Mirza- Director of Liver Transplantation Surgery, Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai.
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