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Transplant Nursing in the 21st Century: The Universal Code for Care
Friday, Nov. 15 - Monday, Nov. 18 2019
The Double Tree by Hilton at Universal Orlando
Orlando, FL, USA
Submit an abstract before the Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 11:59 p.m. (CT) deadline.
 
King Fahad Specialist Hospital Multi Organ Transplant Center was established in 2008 to meet organ transplantation needs in the eastern province and the kingdom. The center is considered the Ministry of Health's reference transplant center. We work closely with the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation and the Eastern Province health authorities.
The center is composed of three departments: kidney and pancreas transplantation, transplant surgery and liver transplantation. The MOTC looks forward to continued enhancement of its programs and services.
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Summary
In June 2017, the OPTN Board of Directors approved policy establishing a National Liver Review Board. Subsequently, in December 2018, the Board approved revisions removing donation service area and region from the NLRB policy in order to satisfy requirements of the OPTN Final Rule. This offering outlines the new review board structure and explains what members need to know about submitting MELD/PELD exception requests, the appeals process, and how existing exceptions and unresolved forms will be transitioned.
Intended Audience
Liver Transplant Program
- Administrators
- Physicians
- Surgeons
Recording
A recording of the live webinar is now available in UNOS Connect. Locate course number LIV108, “National Liver Review Board Policy: New Processes” in the UNOS Connect course catalog Liver category. Register for the offering and click Launch to begin.
This offering lasts approximately 47 minutes.
Continuing Education Information
As a designated Approved Provider by ABTC, UNOS will grant 1 Category 1 Continuing Education Points for Transplant Certification (CEPTC).
Once you view the course and complete the exit survey, your certificate will be available on your transcript.
Questions or Additional Information
Email member.questions@unos.org or call (844) 395-4428 for questions about OPTN policy.
Email unethelpdesk@unos.org or call (800) 978-4334 for UNet questions
Access online help documentation for specific information on UNet applications
VisitUNOS Connect to find webinars, e-learning modules, videos, and other online training
Email education@unos.org for questions about educational or training events
Go to the and Transplant Pro websites for additional resources
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The Washington Post
Every day in America, 33 people die in need of new organs, and about 115,000 people are languishing on waiting lists. The chronic shortage of transplantable organs has spawned lawsuits by lung and liver patients, and forced industry officials to reassess rules that have governed organ distribution in America for decades.
But tinkering with distribution will do nothing to boost overall supply. To do that, medical researchers and industry leaders say the system must aggressively pursue more less-than-perfect donors — people often dismissed as too sick, too old or too complicated — and persuade transplant surgeons to accept their less-than-perfect organs.
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Specialty Medical Dialogues
A case report published in the journal Transplantation Proceedings reports the case of a 53-year-old woman who developed a severe allergic reaction to peanuts after lung transplantation. Surprisingly, the allergy was acquired from the donor who had supplied the woman with a transplanted lung. The patient had no history of allergies to peanuts or other nuts before her transplant.
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The Seattle Times
A human heart left on a commercial airliner provides a glimpse into the nation’s transplant system, which relies on an obscure network of nonprofit organizations to collect and transport human organs and tissue.
The heart traveled in the cargo compartment of a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to Seattle on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. It was supposed to be picked up in Seattle but remained on the plane when the aircraft left for Dallas. There are conflicting accounts of what went wrong, and an investigation is underway.
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WNDU-TV
Being HIV-positive can lead to organ failure over time, time that many patients can’t afford to wait. Up until recently, there was little or no chance these folks could get an organ transplant.
Reynaldo Garza is finally building a healthy future after eight and a half years in limbo. Not only was he suffering from kidney failure, but being HIV-positive all but guaranteed he couldn’t get a transplant.
“They would give a good organ to another person that’s not HIV," he said. "Because back then, if you’re HIV, you were considered a high-risk.”
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WLRN-TV
For the second time, an administrative law judge called for the rejection of a proposed pediatric heart-transplant program that would treat patients from Orlando and other areas of Central Florida.
Judge W. David Watkins, in an 82-page recommended order, said Arnold Palmer Medical Center, which is part of the Orlando Health system, did not show a need to establish another program in the state to provide relatively rare heart transplants to children.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
Squamous cell carcinoma occurs more frequently among organ transplant recipients than in the general population, therefore, researchers explored features of this relationship with results published in JAMA Dermatology.
According to the authors, SCC occurs 65- to 250-fold more often among recipients of solid organ transplants than among people who do not receive these transplants, affecting 20 percent to 75 percent of recipients within the first two decades posttransplant.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine via ScienceDaily
In a review of registry data for more than 5,300 liver transplants performed in children nationwide, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers identify the type of patient who is most likely to survive a split liver transplant — receiving only part of a donor's liver — with no additional long-term health risks, which could allow for an increase in the availability of organs. A report on the new study is published in the December issue of the journal Liver Transplantation.
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Gulf News
Last year was a milestone year for organ transplants in the UAE. The groundbreaking procedures marked the biggest strides in healthcare in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. This year will continue to build on those achievements, just as a raft of regulations introduced by the health-care regulator, the Department of Health, should help improve standards in the sector.
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