Paragraph 1: General conditions applicable to organ transplants

In authorised establishments and in liaison with their directors, the medical managers of transplant activities and those of intensive care and continuous monitoring units draw up agreements defining the resources and procedures for patient care.

The number of medical and paramedical staff is adapted to the organ transplant activity and the follow-up of transplant patients. It includes : 1° At least two surgeons who have each completed four years of clinical training or four years as a practitioner in a unit performing transplants of the organ concerned; 2° At least two doctors, each of whom has completed four years’ clinical training or four years’ experience…

The health care establishment organises a medical service specifically for transplants, provided by a surgeon and a doctor with one of the qualifications mentioned in 3° of article D. 6124-163. It has an operating theatre with an operating room and the necessary staff, available at all times for transplant activity. Continuity of care is ensured on each site by a doctor, a surgeon and a doctor with one of the…

The health establishment authorised to carry out organ transplant activities has the following facilities on site : – the means to ensure extracorporeal blood circulation, long-term mechanical circulatory assistance for heart or lung transplants and intraoperative autotransfusion for liver, heart or lung transplants ; – the means to ensure, by agreement with the site’s nephrology department, round-the-clock extrarenal purification every day of the year for renal transplants. The health care…