Progress in Transplantation back issues from June 2006:
Advanced practice: implications for clinical and procurement transplant coordinators
Jun 01, 2006; ... Advanced Practice and Transplant Coordination: Discovered, not New The advanced practice moniker has been launched throughout the nursing profession. It is defined by the American Nurses Association as a nurse who has met advanced educational and clinical practice requirements beyond the ...
Evaluating Patients With a Criminal History
Jun 01, 2006; ... The cases presented in the article, "Pedophiles and stalkers as transplant candidates: one program's experience" by Dr Paris et al (2005:323-328) were very interesting. A key element to these case discussions, not formally addressed in the article, is the notion of a therapeutic alliance with ...
NATCO, The Organization for Transplant Professionals Position Statement
Jun 01, 2006; ... Donation After Cardiac Death* Statement of the Process NATCO, The Organization for Transplant Professionals, supports patient and family autonomy in all aspects of the organ donation process and as part of end-of-life decision making. A patient with decision-making capacity, a ...
Posttransplant diabetes mellitus in liver transplant recipients
Jun 01, 2006; ... Context-Approximately 20% of liver transplant recipients develop posttransplant diabetes mellitus. Hepatitis C, a leading indication for liver transplantation, has been identified as a risk factor for posttransplant diabetes mellitus and is an observation that is not well ...
Evidence on spouse responses to illness as a guide to understanding and studying spouse responses to living organ donation
Jun 01, 2006; ... Although living kidney donors receive praise from friends and coworkers for their selflessness, recent studies report that members of the immediate family may not be as supportive. Reports of conflict surrounding living organ donation include divorce between the donor and the donor's spouse. The ...
Reproduction and pregnancy in transplant recipients: current practices
Jun 01, 2006; ... Many transplant physicians are faced with questions from their patients about the safety and long-term consequences of pregnancy following transplantation. To better understand how pregnancies are managed and to clarify the outcome of pregnancy after transplantation, a survey questionnaire was ...
BK virus infection in kidney transplantation: a case for early intervention
Jun 01, 2006; ... The prognosis for renal allograft survival in a patient with BK virus-associated nephropathy is distressing because nearly 50% of affected grafts are lost. With these statistics in mind, attempting clinical intervention before BK virus disease develops seems appropriate. Noninvasive screening ...
Conversion from mycophenolate mofetil to enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium in patients with gastrointestinal side effects: case studies
Jun 01, 2006; ... Background-The potential benefit of the current mycophenolic acid, mycophenolate mofetil, has not yet been fully achieved in clinical transplantation because of its gastrointestinal side effects. Dose splitting, dose reduction, and drug discontinuation are strategies that are used to manage ...
Donation after cardiac death has a minimal impact on thoracic organ recovery
Jun 01, 2006; ... Background-Our organ procurement organization recently developed an aggressive donation after cardiac death program. Thoracic organs are rarely recovered from non-heart-beating donors. Therefore, there is concern that donation after cardiac death may affect the recovery of thoracic organs from ...
Information sharing: its impact on donor and nondonor families' experiences in the hospital
Jun 01, 2006; ... Objective-To illustrate the methods used to convey complicated information regarding the critical injury, and death diagnosed by means of brainstem testing, to the next of kin of potential organ donors. Design-3-year, prospective, longitudinal study. Participants and ...
Family responses to donor designation in donation cases: a longitudinal study
Jun 01, 2006; ... Context-A 2001 state law reinforced donors' rights by mandating that donor consent be strictly honored. One concern was the potentially negative impact of donor designation notification on donor families. Objectives-To examine donor families' responses to donor ...
Advanced practice organ procurement techniques: insertion of central venous catheters
Jun 01, 2006; ... Placement of central venous catheters by organ procurement coordinators to assist in obtaining blood samples or for measuring intravascular pressure is appropriate. Preparation for this role should include appropriate didactic instruction and supervised clinical experience. The organ procurement ...
Patient-reported outcomes for open versus laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy
Jun 01, 2006; ... Background-Rates of living kidney donation have increased dramatically in recent years, in large part because of improved surgical techniques such as laparoscopic nephrectomy. Objective-To compare patient-reported outcomes of laparoscopic nephrectomy versus open donor nephrectomy in 84 ...
Is it ethical to prioritize patients for organ allocation according to their values about organ donation?
Jun 01, 2006; ... Because the supply of deceased donor organs fails to meet demand, patients needing a transplant frequently have lengthy waits or die while waiting. In an effort to reduce waiting times, the concept of "preferred status" has emerged. In the United States, preferred status has taken the form of a ...
Calendar 2006
Jun 01, 2006; ... June NATCO Introductory Course for the New Transplant Coordinator June 2-6, Tempe, Ariz visit www.natcol.org NATCO Advanced Hospital Development Course June 4-6, Tempe, Ariz visit www.natcol.org European Transplant Coordinators Organization ...