Euro GTP Guidance - Euro GTPs

3. The coding system should be designed so as to relate all transplants of a certain donor to a
unique donor number in order to guarantee traceability and biovigilance from donor
screening until tissue transplantation.
4. A (potential) donor should receive a donor identification number before any further
procedures are started. All documental and/or electronic data that are collected from this
donor, should state this number. All body materials (e.g. blood, tissue, fluid) that are
collected from this donor, have to refer to the donor number.
5. The method of verifying the donor’s identity should be described in an identification
procedure. This procedure should be followed before starting the recovery and should enable
the identity of the donor to be established beyond any doubt. The verification should be
performed based on at least two independent factors like date of birth and name, or name and
hospital patient number.
6. The source of the donor’s identity has to be documented. For living donors this could
mean taking the number of the identity card. For deceased donors, the presence of toe tags,
wrist bands or other confirmation of the deceased’s identity should be noted.
7. A reliable identification of the deceased donor must always take place before starting the
recovery.
A.3.1.1.3. Post Morten donor maintenance
1. To avoid deterioration of the corpse of a deceased donor, the body has to be brought into a
cooled environment as soon as possible. The eyes should be closed in case of cornea
donation.
2. If the donor has not been cooled within six hours after death, the recovery should have
commenced within 12 hours after heart death, unless a later time can be determined based on
the tissue specific quality aspects.
3. If the refrigeration (1-10ºC) takes place during the first six hours, the recovery may start as
late as 12 hours after death. The maximum recovery delay has to be established per tissue
type, based on the quality and contamination aspects of the specific tissue and the way it will
be processed.
4. When the tissues derives from an organ donor, the corpse is maintained at a temperature
>35ºC until the recovery of organs. When the tissue recovery is performed immediately after
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