Donor Management: Testing & Suitability - CPTC Study Guide (2026 Edition)
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description: This guide is designed to help you master one of the most detail-heavy and policy-driven areas of the CPTC exam: Donor Testing and Suitability which falls under the Donor Management section. This guide teaches you what must be tested, verified, timed, and reported before those organs move. Almost every rule here comes from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) policies and the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) infectious-disease guidance, so the guide teaches the standard national requirements rather than any one Organ Procurement Organization's (OPO's) internal practice — which is exactly how the CPTC exam is written. Determining whether an organ is suitable is not based on intuition or a single laboratory result. It requires a precise sequence of blood typing, independent verification, specimen-quality assessment, infectious-disease screening, organ-specific testing, risk communication, documentation, and reporting before an organ can be safely offered or released. CPTC Study Guide: Donor Testing & Suitability Testing to Determine Organ Suitability accounts for 19% of the scored CPTC exam, or approximately 28 of the 150 scored questions on the current ABTC blueprint. This guide is built to the July 1, 2026 CPTC test specifications and is designed to pair directly with the 50-question Testing & Suitability practice set. This guide helps candidates think like an Organ Procurement Coordinator: confirming that required information is complete, verifying blood type before allocation, assessing whether specimens are reliable, coordinating infectious-disease testing, recognizing critical timing windows, preparing complete organ-offer information, and communicating risks that may affect recipient safety. Why This Guide Is Different The CPTC exam does not simply test whether you recognize common donor laboratory tests. It tests whether you know which tests are required, when they must be obtained, how results must be verified, what must accompany each org…
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