1.6 million people are on the Australian Organ Donation Registry. How do you approach organ donation with your patients? Steve Philpot speaks at the May VIN meeting about how we can better facilitate organ donation and about the usefulness of the donation registry. Go to Intensivecarenetwork.com for the talk and more...

1. Australian Organ
Donor Register

2. AODR registration – 7.1%
1
2
Australian
population
22, 932, 472
AODR registrations
1, 641, 185
(“No” registrations = 17, 264)

3. Donation
Discussions 294
AODR checks
153
Patient not
listed
118
Consent
28
Refusal
1
AODR not checked
141
Victoria 2010
Hugh Stephens, David Pilcher, Violet Marion, Helen Opdam.
The impact of checking the Australian Organ Donor Register on
family consent rates

4. Donation
Discussions 294
AODR checks
153
Patient not
listed
118
Consent
28
Consent rate
93%
Refusal
1
AODR not checked
141
Victoria 2010

5. Donation
Discussions 294
AODR checks
153
Patient not
listed
118
Consent
28
Consent rate
93%
Refusal
1
Consent rate
100%
AODR not checked
141
Victoria 2010

6. Donation
Discussions 294
AODR checks
153
Patient not
listed
118
Consent rate
70%
Consent
28
Consent rate
93%
Refusal
1
Consent rate
100%
AODR not checked
141
Victoria 2010

7. Donation
Discussions 294
AODR checks
153
Patient not
listed
118
Consent rate
70%
Consent
28
Consent rate
93%
Refusal
1
Consent rate
100%
AODR not checked
141
Consent rate
39%
Victoria 2010

8. “Mr. Robertson, Mark has the opportunity to help
other people by being an organ donor. We have
checked the donor register and found that Mark has
consented to donation.
I’d like to explain to you what that means.”
Meaningful information