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Don’t miss the Keynote Address from Sabina De Geest, PhD RN FAAN FRCN FEANS, and the Invited Speaker presentation from Michael Petty, PhD RN APRN-CNS CCNS. Earn up to 25 continuing education (CE) credits for only $400 USD. Don’t forget — you save $100 USD when you register by the Monday, 28 May 2018 early-bird deadline!
 The Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest submissions are due by 28 February 2018. The winner will be announced on Transplant Nurses Day which will be held on 18 April 2018. Download the 2018 Transplant Nurses Day Essay Contest Entry Form. Print and the entry form in your hospital to help us spread the word!
ITNS's purpose is to support the professional and educational needs of transplant nurses throughout their careers. You, our members, are a vital part of the transplant nursing community that cares for a special patient population and their families.
You can make a difference for your transplant nursing colleagues! Share with your friends the benefits of membership in ITNS and encourage them to join ITNS!
Register to attend the 2018 Inova Heart and Vascular Institute Transplant Symposium
on Monday, March 5, from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Physician’s Conference Center, at Inova Fairfax Hospital. “Experts in the field of Thoracic Transplant for a comprehensive review of advanced concepts in Heart and Lung Transplant and recipient management.” RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE!
Pediatric Transplantation
Distance from pediatric kidney transplant centers may be a significant barrier in accessing care for patients and families, particularly due to the lower number of pediatric kidney transplant centers compared with the number of adult centers. We performed a retrospective cohort study using data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients to determine the effect of distance on pediatric kidney transplant waitlist outcomes.
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3D Printing Industry
A 3-D printed replica kidney, from UK-based 3D printed medical model company axial3D, has facilitated a crucial transplant operation and simultaneously improved the life of the organ donor.
Surgeons at Belfast City Hospital in Northern Ireland planned the complete excision of a Bosniak 2F renal cyst using a kidney replica. The operation itself was the first such procedure performed without the need for revision surgery in Ireland.
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DailyNurse
A new study led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing found that patient satisfaction with care in hospitals declines when patients believe there are not enough nurses on wards. The study findings were based on the results of a patient survey of 66,348 patients.
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Healio
Portal vein venoplasty with autogenous patch was a simple and safe procedure that produced satisfactory outcomes in pediatric patients with poor portal vein characteristics who underwent living donor liver transplantation, according to a recently published study.
“Our novel [portal vein] venoplastic technique enlarges a hypoplastic portal vein through the insertion of an autogenous portal vein patch down to the site of normal size, which can be the confluence of the portal vein and the coronary vein,” Mingxuan Feng, MD, said.
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Medscape (free login required)
Elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) urgently need effective treatment options. Hope may be on the horizon for these patients after results from an early-phase trial showed "remarkable" results with a combination of venetoclax (Venclexta, AbbVie/Genentech) and hypomethylating agents (decitabine or azacitidine).
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JAMA
Have racial/ethnic disparities in the receipt of live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) narrowed over the last 2 decades in the United States? In this study of 453 162 adult first-time kidney transplantation candidates, the cumulative incidence of LDKT receipt at 2 years after appearing on the waiting list increased from 7.0 percent in 1995 to 11.4 percent in 2014 among white patients, decreased from 3.4 percent to 2.9 percent among black patients, decreased from 6.8 percent to 5.9 percent among Hispanic patients, and increased from 5.1 percent to 5.6 percent among Asian patients, which represent a significant increase in racial/ethnic disparities over time.
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Nurse.com
For nurses on the frontlines of healthcare, recent news that Americans continue to trust nursing more than any other profession is not only validating, but also a testament to the effort they put into caring for patients every day.
“Everybody was re-Tweeting it and sharing it,” said National Student Nurses Association President Jennifer Kalenkoski, RN, who works in a medical cardiology progressive care unit for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Everybody was really proud of it.”
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Seminars in Dialysis
Treatment modality education can offer many important benefits to patients and their families. Evidence suggests such education can increase use of home dialysis, reduce catheter use, decrease 90-day mortality, and increase transplantation. While these benefits are encouraging, not all patients are offered options education and when they are, it may not be presented in a way that is immediately applicable to them and their lives.
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