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ITNS
 A Guide to Your Health Care After Liver Transplantation
This pamphlet discusses maintaining your health after a liver transplant. It includes important information about care as the patient and their family prepare for discharge from the hospital. Liver transplantation is far more than the operation. It is important for the patient to learn about their care so
they will have the best possible outcome with their healthy liver.
You can download the Patient Education pamphlets for free on the ITNS website.
ITNS
  All nominations must be received by 5 April 2017. Please note: Both the nominator and the nominee must be current ITNS members. The full award requirements and the nomination form can be found on the ITNS website.
Transplant Nursing Excellence Award: To recognize an exemplary nurse (RN or equivalent) for their care of transplant patients and their embodiment of the ITNS mission and values.
Friend of Transplant Nursing Award: To recognize an individual outside the nursing profession who has supported the efforts of ITNS and made an impact in the field of transplant nursing.
CNN
Organ transplants performed in the United States reached a record high during 2016, for the fourth year in a row, according to preliminary data from the United Network for Organ Sharing.
During 2016, there were 33,606 transplants, an 8.5 percent increase over 2015 and up 19.8 percent since 2012. This growth can be mostly attributed to an expanding number of deceased donors.
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Nurse.com
In a reported case out of California, a 33-year-old male presented at his hospital's ED with severe abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with appendicitis and admitted for an appendectomy. During the first postsurgical hour, IV Demerol was initiated in the postanesthesia recovery unit, starting with 100 mg in divided doses.
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London Free Press
London patients fare better than many across Ontario when it comes to getting kidney transplants, a province-wide study says.
But in a province with a 30 percent organ donation rate, there's a long way to go before any community can claim success in getting enough transplants that can add years and quality to life, said one of the study's researchers from London, Dr. Amit Garg.
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Herald Sun
The same process used by an international matchmaking site to pair lonely hearts may hold the key to improving outcomes of liver transplants and increasing the number of donated organs that can be used.
Just as dating websites consider hundreds of interacting variables when choosing an ideal love match, an Australian-first computer program designed by an Austin Health trainee surgeon works in the same way; using the top 15 factors known at the time of transplant to predict the early success of a liver donation.
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Healthcare POV
Determining to pursue a career in nursing may be the easiest decision you make in life. As you may have been told, nurses are in great demand! There are also many types and thresholds where an individual can "get their feet wet" while deciding which type of healthcare fits their basic needs.
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Digital Trends
As if the thought of an organ transplant operation wasn't scary enough, there's also a chance that patients' bodies can reject the carefully implanted organ altogether — leaving patients back where they started, or in even worse condition.
A startup called Micromatrix Medical thinks it has the answer, however, courtesy of a process called perfusion decellularization and recellularization. In short, the idea is to take an animal organ and strip out any cells that could cause it to be rejected. Once no cells are left, and the organ has turned completely white, it's then pumped full of the patient's cells to make it ready for transplant.
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