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This symposium offers a unique clinical focus with educational content appropriate for all levels of practice. Join us in Berlin to earn up to 25 continuing education (CE) hours at education sessions with both pre- and posttransplant focuses. Network with transplant professionals from around the world and share best practices to help improve patient care. Visit ITNS.org/EuropeanSymposium
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CNN
Though the number of lives lost to the US opioid epidemic continues to spike, it has also contributed to a record number of organ donations.
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit that manages the nation's organ transplant network, early data show that the number of deceased organ donors hit a record in 2017 for the fifth straight year.
There was also a record number of total donors, both living and deceased: 16,462, up 3 percent from the year before.
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American Journal of Transplantation
With advances in immunosuppression, graft and patient outcomes after kidney transplantation have improved considerably. As a result, long-term complications of transplantation, such as urologic malignancies, have become increasingly important. Kidney transplant recipients, for example, have a 7-fold risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and 3-fold risk of urothelial carcinoma (UC) compared with the general population.
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DailyNurse
If you ask any nurse what their favorite thing is about wearing scrubs (besides the fact that they are basically PJs), they will most likely say “pockets!” Scrub pockets hold all of the essential tools that a nurse needs to survive a shift. If you’re a student or a new nurse, you might not know yet exactly what you should keep in your pockets.
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HealthDay News via The Clinical Advisor
In children who receive a non-kidney solid organ transplant, acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the first year after surgery and is associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online Dec. 29 in the American Journal of Transplantation.
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Renal & Urology News
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) is associated with low complication rates, rapid recovery, and excellent graft function when performed by surgeons with robotic and kidney transplantation experience, according to a European study.
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DailyNurse
Bedside manner is a broad phrase used to describe a health care professional’s attitude towards a patient. At its core, it describes the doctor- or nurse-patient relationship, but the right approach to care goes much deeper than that. According to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, bedside manner is one of the most crucial parts of a patient’s recovery, as it helps build trust in the patient and leads to better care after the patient has left the hospital. In other words, universities are now emphasizing good bedside manner right alongside teaching CPR and how to use stethoscopes.
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Healio
An analysis of hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients in the United States over a 14-year period showed that patients with HIV do not have an increased risk for serious in-hospital complications despite having a potentially higher risk for certain opportunistic infections.
Research has demonstrated that patients with HIV are living longer because of the availability of highly active ART.
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Liver Transplantation
Late allocation of organs for transplant impairs post–liver transplantation (LT) survival. Cardiac dysfunction, especially diastolic and autonomic dysfunction, is frequent and plays an important role in the prognosis of patients with cirrhosis. However, the role of myocardial contractility is unexplored, and its prognostic value is controversially discussed. This study analyses the role of myocardial contractility assessed by speckle tracking echocardiography in LT allocation.
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Healio
Patients who underwent liver transplantation evaluation had a high prevalence of coronary artery disease, especially those with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-related cirrhosis, hepatitis C-related cirrhosis and alcoholic cirrhosis, according to a recently published study.
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Patient Engagement HIT
In healthcare facilities, nurses can be found nearly everywhere — at patient screenings, in nursing stations, and, most importantly, with the patient in the exam room or at the bedside. Nurses are on the front lines of patient care, making nurse-patient communication essential to a positive patient experience.
On a pragmatic level, nurse-patient communication is important because it is one of the primary domains on which CAHPS surveys are scored.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
The intravascular ventricular assist system (iVAS) is a new, minimally invasive, ambulatory counterpulsation heart assist system delivered via the subclavian artery and powered by a portable driver. It is designed for recovery, bridge to transplantation (BTT) or for prolonging medical therapy. We report the first-in-human (FIH) experience with iVAS.
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