Shortly after the organization of the first Spanish Transplant Coordination team, TPM was created to train Transplant Coordinators as medical specialists. Its implementation has empowered a constant growth of procurement and transplantation activity (2003 Spanish pmp is 33.8). This model gradually spread to other countries, such as Italy, where there has been a growing average rate of 189% in the last 10 years. Countries have been gathered in three areas considering those whose organ procurement organization was in an early stage and have had country representatives attending TPM courses: 10 countries from Latin America (LAT), 10 from Eastern Europe (EE) and 6 from Middle East (ME). International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation (IRODAT) has provided the donation activity data. The total number of donors and the growing percentage’s averages of donation pmp rates/year have been considered according to TPM participants/year/country.
The number of participants was 587 in LAT, 401 in EE and 135 in ME. The number of donors increased from 1195 to 2315 in LAT (93.7%), 460 to 993 in EE (115.8%) and 151 to 194 in ME (28.5%). The growing percentage’s average is 146% in LAT, 185% in EE and 45% in ME. Whereas the donation rates are subjected to several factors such as religious, economic, cultural and legal issues, the existence of well-trained professionals may considerably contribute to raise them. The results suggest that professional TPM training is a successful method to increase donation rates.