[en] Introduction: The types of donors currently accepted are living donors, cadavers and the potential donors with brain death (BD) and asystole. Despite this, Spain doesn´t cover the demand of the population on waiting list for transplant. Objectives: - Describe the pathological process and evaluate the nursing interventions in a patient Organ Potential Donor (OPD) and Tissues of the Multipurpose Unit of Intensive Medicine Service. - Develop a plan of nurse care for the same patient. - Applying the scale Nine Equivalents of Nursing Manpower Use Score (NEMS), measure nurse workload that can involve this type of patients. Development: Because of the magnitude of the problem, it is justified establish an individualized care plan based on the Nursing Care Process (NCP), to recognize the nurse performance in the maintenance of the organs of the OPD with BD. In addition, the NEMS scale was applied to achieve the objectives. This case was carried out in the Multipurpose Unit of Intensive Medicine Service of the Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), one of the most important transplant centers in our country. Discussion and conclusions: In our case, after the proper maintenance of the organs of the donor, the surgical removal was possible. We should add that the clinical case seems to support that the systematization of nursing work would ensure the correct detection of problems and standardization of cares in each case. Additionalt, the NEMS scale showed that nursing workload that demands a OPD does not differ from that of other ICU patients. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of helping the family to accept the ME.

[gl] Introdución: os tipos de donantes aceptados actualmente son os vivos, os cadáveres e os potenciais en morte encefálica (ME) e en asistolia. A pesar diso, España non cubre a demanda da poboación en lista de espera para transplante. Obxectivos: - Describir o proceso patolóxico e avaliar as intervencións de Enfermaría nun paciente Doante Potencial de Órganos (DPO) e Tecidos da Unidade Polivalente do Servizo de Medicina Intensiva. - Elaborar un plan de coidados enfermeiro para ese mesmo paciente. - Aplicando a escala Nine Equivalents of Nursing Manpower Use Score (NEMS), coñecer a carga de traballo enfermeiro que poda chegar a supoñer este tipo de pacientes. Desenvolvemento: debido á magnitude do problema está xustificado establecer un plan de coidados individualizado, baseado no Proceso de Atención de Enfermaría (PAE), para coñecer a actuación enfermeira no mantemento dos órganos do DPO en ME. Ademais, se aplicou a escala NEMS para cumprir cos obxectivos. Este caso desenvolveuse na Unidade Polivalente do Servizo de Medicina Intensiva do Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), un dos centros tranplantadores máis importantes do noso país. Discusión e conclusións: finalmente, tras o mantemento adecuado dos órganos do doante, foi posíbel a extracción cirúrxica. Cabe engadir que o caso clínico parece apoiar que a sistematización do traballo enfermeiro garantiría a detección correcta de problemas e a estandarización dos coidados en cada caso. Ademais, a escala NEMS demostrou que a carga de traballo enfermeira que demanda un DPO non difire da do resto de paciente da UCI. Por último, destaca a importancia de axudar á familia a aceptar a ME.