| Webinar Series Launched |  |
Since launching our monthly webinar series, in October 2011 we average 155 people from an average of 40 organizations!
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"We've found the ISOP webinars to be a useful source of continuing training for our staff. They're delivered in a convenient format and often spark excellent discussions afterwards."
-PJ Geragthy at Donor Network of Arizona
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There is more to come so mark your calendars for:
February 15, 2012
March 21, 2012
April 18, 2012
May 16, 2012
Topics In The Works:
ECD Kidney Utilization
Setting Up A Research Program in Your OPO - How Preservation Plays A Major Role
Machine Liver Perfusion
DCD Liver Recovery
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Greetings!
This is the 5th edition of the Preservation Pulse the newsletter by the International Society for Organ Preservation. It is our goal to share news about the current issues in the field of organ transplant regarding preservation, the ISOP and its members. Preservation has evolved to be a dynamic entity in the field of transplantation and we will have much to share with you in this document. We hope that this will be a useful tool and entice you to join the ISOP and share your experiences and talents as a member. |
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Our Sincere Condolences... | |
ISOP offers its condolences to the families and the friends and colleagues of David Hines, Dr. Louis Bonilla from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida and E. Hoke Smith of SK Jets who were lost aboard a flight to recover donated organs for transplant.
In the Jacksonville Times Union, it was stated that in David's Facebook it was written "I feel I have the best job in the world. The reason is because of the nature of the work and the direct contact with the people who I work with."
We are saddened by the untimely death of these transplant professionals and we extend our utmost condolences to their families and friends.
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The ISOP Wants YOU | |
Since the ISOP received Approved Provider status with the ABTC three years ago, we have shown that we meet our Mission Statement "To advance the scientific knowledge and techniques of organ preservation for transplantation."
Now we need YOUR help. In the past two years we have:
- Conducted 7 workshops for those wanting to improve their status with the Certified Transplant Preservationist designation and have a 93% success rate for those who have taken the test.
- We have presented 4 webinars on the following:
- Principles of Organ Preservation
- Heart Preservation Using the Organ Care System
- A Best Practice Approach to Machine Perfusion of the Kidney
- Face & Hand Transplants
The webinars have proved to be a great method of education that you, the transplant professional, have asked us to present.
We have a dedicated and hardworking corps of officers and board members and an education and membership committee that also have full time duties at their OPO's.
WE NEED YOUR TALENT AND TIME. Please renew your membership by clicking here.
There are more transplant professionals that will need the CTP training and future webinars that need to be researched, planned and scheduled. Help the ISOP fulfill our mission statement in the years to come!
Do you have a topic you'd like us to present? Let us know! Email Amber at: amber@organpreservation.org |
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SAVE THESE DATES....April 11-13, 2012 | 
ISOP will be presenting our first Organ Preservation Seminar, an Advanced Preservationists Curriculum and Certified Transplant Preservationists Exam Prep Course.
This is what you have been asking for - an ADVANCED seminar!!
The Advanced Preservationists Curriculum will be a day and a half and our planned objectives will include:
- What to do and how to deal with a crashing organ donor
- Performing mock donation after cardiac death (DCD) presentations in your service area hospitals
- Preservationists role in training for DCD's and during real DCD cases
- First assisting & dissection practices
- Differences in ORs & supplies
- Staffing and call schedule models
- History of organ preservation
- Rationale for kidney pumping
- Culturing practices
- Prepping, draping and common instrumentation
- Clinical outcomes and delayed graft function rates
- Real time hospital staff training
- Liver recovery
- Suturing practices
- Best practices of a preservationist and a preservation lab
The Certified Transplant Preservationists Exam Prep Course will be the last day and our planned objectives will include all aspects of the organ preservation process as it relates to the areas of:
- Professional Practices
- Organ Recovery
- Aseptic Technique
- Organ Preservation
- Preservation Solutions
- Specimen Collection
- Packaging
- Labelling
- Shipping
- Test Taking Pointers
More details to come....space will be limited!! An invitation email will be sent in February....Stay Tuned! |
| Achievements In Preservation | |
 Congratulations on passing the ABTC Certified Transplant Preservationists (CTP) exam!
Michael Anderson, PA-C, CTP, Physician Assistant and Surgical Recovery Services Manager of University of Wisconsin Organ Procurement Organization (Madison, WI)
Cindy Godfrey, CTBS, CTP, Surgical Recovery Specialist, Level II/ Trainer at New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network (New Providence, NJ)
Rachel Smith, CTP,Organ Recovery Specialist at LifeCenter Organ Donor Network (Cincinnati, OH)
The use of the certification credentials attests to the transplant community and the public that the individual has met stringent standards of competency and possesses the knowledge and skills needed to provide quality care for transplant donors and recipients. Passing the exam allows the individual to attach the CTP designation to one's name.
To learn more about the exam: Visit ABTC's website
Have you recently passed the CTP exam? Let us know! You should be proud....we'd love to announce you in our next newsletter! Email Amber at: amber@organpreservation.org |
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| Certified Transplant Preservationist (CTP) Courses | |
ISOP is ready to go on the road again...we are planning on at least 3 CTP courses this year. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in a course.
When the attendees of our past 7 courses were asked if they would recommend this course to others...
97.2%
...stated they strongly agree or agree they would recommend the CTP prep course by ISOP!
We recently received this feedback from an industry colleague....
"I attended ISOP's CTP Prep Course at the 2011 AOPO meeting in Denver and it was a really great prep course. It definitely made the difference in how I studied and made me feel more confident."
-Rachel Smith, CTP, at LifeCenter Organ Donor Network
If your organization is interested, email Amber at: amber@organpreservation.org
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| ISOP Needs a New Treasurer...Voting Delayed | |
Voting will now be in February 2o12
If you are a current member of ISOP with current dues paid, you are eligibile to vote. You will receive an email Survey Monkey link to easily vote for the candidate you feel will serve ISOP the best as Treasurer.
Votes will be collected during the month of February and the new position will be announced soon thereafter.
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Meet William Cook of ISOP's Education Committee |
 | | William Cook facilitaing at NATCO's Organ Preservation Symposium last August in San Francisco, CA. |
William Anthony Cook Sr., is an Organ Perfusion Coordinator at LifePoint, Inc. in Charleston, SC and has worked there since 2008. Some of his duties at LifePoint are to travel throughout South Carolina and the surrounding regions, facilitating organ recoveries, perform renal perfusion by placing kidneys on perfusion pump and monitoring, and training new staff in the areas of organ recovery and kidney perfusion.
Prior to LifePoint, William served The Living Legacy Foundation in Baltimore, MD as a Tissue and Organ Recovery Specialist for 2 years. He is an Army trained Medic and Surgical Technician, where he served from 1988 to 1998.
William serves ISOP on the Education and Membership Committee which was created to serve its growing membership and proactively move ISOP into the forefront of our profession by educating our colleagues within the field. The goals of this committee are to increase membership and serve ISOP's mission.
Many times you will hear William moderating our monthly webinars. We are proud to have him on the ISOP team!
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