Competency information
Details
Assess the suitability of potential kidney donor/recipients for a living donor transplant and produce an interpretive report for clinical colleagues.
Considerations
- Current legislation for living donor transplantation
- Human Tissue Act
- Directed and non-directed donation
- NLDKSS
- Strategies to improve access to transplantation for sensitised patients, including
- Antibody removal
- ABOi and HLA antibody incompatible (HLAi) transplantation
- Epitope matching
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Assess the suitability of patients for crossmatch and transplantation within the national deceased donor organ allocation scheme. |
| # 3 | Outcome Analyse and report laboratory tests for donor and recipient compatibility to facilitate transplantation within the national deceased donor organ allocation scheme. |
| # 4 | Outcome Assess the suitability of patients for crossmatch and transplantation for living donation. |
| # 7 | Outcome Assess the suitability of patients for HLA/HPA selected platelets and identify compatible platelet units. |