On November 4, 2017 MOHAN Foundation hosted a consultative meeting for a select group of intensive care specialists from across the country. The aim was to brainstorm on how to create a platform to impart effective training to ICU staff on brain death and organ donation. The meeting was held at The Pride Hotel.

Close to 15 senior intensive care specialists participated in the meeting from Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

The workshop began with Dr. Sunil Shroff addressing the group and giving them a brief overview of deceased organ donation and transplantation in India. He then explained that the workshop would train ICU doctors and staff about the key issues related to organ donation. The focus areas would be:

• Brain Death certification
• Brain Death maintenance
• Family conversation & counseling on organ donation
• Handling medico legal cases

Videos on Brain Death testing, ABG Analysis and on Counselling were screened. After this, Dr Vijayanand Palaniswamy addressed the group to take them through the workshop format. The main aim was to build a team of experts who could train across the country and test the various activities in the workshop module developed by Dr. Vijayanand. The activities were tested by the participants followed by a discussion on the positives and negatives of the activity.

Apart from testing of the module the participants also discussed the administrative part of the training like –

1. Creating a Forum of ICU Champions,
2. Rolling out, Costings and funding of a course
3. Endorsement and Accreditation and partnerships,
4. CME & Certification,
5. Donation after Circulatory Death & Brain Death Controversy
6. Creating a centralised resource material for reference  and Studying the impact of course

We thank all the intensive care specialists for taking the effort to attend this meeting and for contributing their inputs towards the course.