Scandiatransplant

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5 countries involved in Scandiatransplant (green)

Scandiatransplant is an organization founded in 1969 whose task is the mediation of organ donations in the Scandinavian countries Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden . Patients from these countries who are waiting for an organ transplant are stored in a file that is managed centrally. Scandiatransplant members are twelve transplant centers, i.e. hospitals with active organ transplant programs and eight immunology laboratories . The highest instance of the organization is a council of representatives, which consists of at least one representative from each of the transplant centers. The number of representatives from a transplant center depends on the number of transplants that the center carried out in the previous year. Council decisions on medical matters must be taken unanimously.

A comparable international organization is Eurotransplant , which includes Germany. For example, transplants are exchanged between Scandiatransplant and Eurotransplant as well as the national transplant files UK Transplant (United Kingdom), Francetransplant (France) and other national organizations.

facts and figures

Scandiatransplant is responsible for the coverage of more than 25 million inhabitants in five countries: Denmark (5.7 million), Finland (5.4 million), Iceland (0.3 million), Norway (5.2 million .) and Sweden (9.7 million) (2015).

A total of 1808 transplants were carried out in 2012, which were mediated by Scandiatransplant.

Since it was founded in 1969 by the end of 2014, more than 30,000 scandiatransplant-mediated organs had been transplanted.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Transplants save lives, on both sides of the Channel" article at www.medicalnewstoday.com, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/13409.php
  2. ↑ Chairman's Report 2012, http://www.scandiatransplant.org/about-scandiatransplant/organisation/the-chairman-s-report-for-the-period-9-5-2012-30-4.2013
  3. ^ History of Scandiatransplant, http://www.scandiatransplant.org/about-scandiatransplant/history

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