Euro GTP Guidance - Euro GTPs

e) To ensure that medical, social, physical and biological evaluations have been
performed according to the established requirements;
f) To ensure that the absolute rejection criteria are met and the relative exclusion criteria
are assessed against safety, quality and availability aspects of the tissue;
g) To establish the requirements for testing (parameters and methods) and to guarantee
that the tests are carried out accordingly (quality agreement, audit visit, etc. when
applicable);
h) To verify the identification, integrity and suitability of the test samples sent to the
corresponding laboratory units and that these laboratory are authorised centres by the
competent authorities;
i) To verify that, in case of suspicious and unexpected findings during donor evaluation,
an adequate additional investigation is done;
j) To systematically check the donation dossier review process and adapt the processes
when indicated;
k) To perform a process efficacy review, including an analysis of potential donors, real
donors, causes to reject a potential donor and all the statistics considered helpful to
improve the detection system and increase the donation efficacy;
l) To oversee and coordinate feedback with the hospitals or facilities that have reported
the donor;
m) To medically supervise the personnel involved in donor screening;
n) To guarantee that all legal and ethical aspects have been respected during every donor
screening step (informed consent, death diagnosis, etc.).
o) To control, revise and update all the donor selection criteria documents affecting the
donation. These responsibilities may be delegated to another authorized person.
5. Recovery responsibilities should include, but not be limited to, the following functions:
a) Check donor identification;
b) Check medical-legal data of the donor documentation;
c) Donor physical exam (not required for living donors);
d) Donor preparation (preoperative disinfection and operative field setting) (not required
for living-donor tissue-recovery personnel);
e) Recovery process and inspection of the cavities (thorax, abdomen) during recovery;
f) Tissue packaging and identification;
g) Donor reconstruction (not required for living-donor tissue-recovery personnel);
h) Microbiological sampling;
i) Transport;
These responsibilities may be performed by a delegated person.
6. Processing responsibilities should include, but not be limited to, the following functions:
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