The Deceased Donation Course NHS Blood and Transplant are running two-day courses specifically for Intensive Care Medicine trainees. We have designed the course content following engagement with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and Intensive Care Society.

To provide maximum impact and learning the course is restricted to 18 ST5+ ICM trainee participants.

COST The course is fully funded by NHSBT and is FREE to the ICM trainee. Lunches, the Course Dinner and accommodation for one night will be provided free of charge. Travel costs are not provided.

Dates and Venue

28th - 29th June, 2016 Trent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre, Nottingham 28th November - 29th November, 2016 St George's Simulation and Skills Laboratory, London 21st - 22nd February, 2017 Salford Hospital Simulation Centre, Manchester

To apply please email: ODTmedicaleducation@nhsbt.nhs.uk Although free for the ICM trainee, simulation courses are expensive to run. Please note that failure to attend without adequate notification will result in a letter to your TPD and/or educational supervisor.

Faculty Experienced ICM consultants and Clinical Leads for Organ Donation will support trainees through the two day course.

Develop Technical and Non-Technical Skills in all aspects of deceased donation.

The course will give you the knowledge and skills to be able to confidently include organ donation as part of your end of life care options for your patients in your future intensive care career.

Feedback February 2016: “A massive thank you for what has been the most well organised, put together course I have ever been on. The enthusiasm and knowledge of all the faculty was infectious.”

The Deceased Donation Course

Specific learning opportunities • Gain confidence in explaining death confirmed using neurological criteria • Learn safe practice from national experts in neurological death testing • Gain skills in leading end of life discussions and approaching for organ donation • Practice withdrawal of life sustaining treatment and the safe diagnosis of death

Overall Learning Objectives

1. Gain knowledge and skills in the area of diagnosing death and organ donation. 2. Improve communication skills around breaking bad news and organ donation. 3. Develop capacity to make informed ethical and legal choices in the context of organ

donation. 4. Develop ability to work productively with others, particularly the Specialist Nurses in

Organ Donation. FICM Syllabus covered by the Course This course predominantly covers Domain 8: End of Life Care. The course is not designed to assess competency but is intended to be foundational to the development of these competencies.

Day One (Theory) 1000-1030 Registration and Coffee 1030-1040 Welcome & Introduction 1040-1120 Deceased Donation in

Context 1120-1140 Identifying and Referring

Donors 1140-1200 Coffee 1200-1300 Diagnosis of Death 1300-1330 Donor and Recipient

Stories 1330-1430 Lunch 1430-1530 Objective Ethics and the

Ethics and Law of Deceased Organ Donation

1530-1545 Role of the SNOD 1545-1600 Coffee 1600-1700 Approaching families

regarding donation 1700-1800 ASK the faculty and

discussion, wrap up and outline of Day 2

1800-1900 (Faculty Meeting) 1930+ Course Dinner

Day Two (Practice) The aim is to take participants on two patient journeys, 1 donation after the confirmation of death using neurological criteria and 1 donation after circulatory death.

For the second day the 18 trainees are divided into six groups of three trainees each, and each group will have an additional 1 intensive care nurse.

Day 2 consists of a series of 6 simulation workshops + 2 interactive tutorials = 8 sessions (45 minutes each)

• 3 communication stations (each participant will perform in one and observe two)

• 1 neurological testing for the confirmation of death station

• 1 withdrawal of life sustaining treatment station and diagnosis of death following cardiorespiratory arrest

• 1 donor optimisation station • 2 tutorials (Ethical issues in organ

donation & pitfalls in brainstem death testing)