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Healio
The UK DCD Risk Score reliably detected patients at high risk for graft failure and futile combinations of donor-and-recipient factors in donation-after-circulatory-death liver transplantation, according to recently published data.
“Livers from donation-after-circulatory-death (DCD) donors are increasingly used for transplantation, and several countries have implemented DCD programs,” Andrea Schlegel, MD, said.
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MedPage Today
It's probably safe to say that nurse leaders' favorite subject is not finance. But in today's healthcare industry, financial incentives and reimbursement have become so entwined with patient care and outcomes, that you cannot have one without considering the other.
Below are recent HealthLeaders Media articles to help nurse leaders make sense out of the dollars and cents attached to patient care.
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Healio
Simultaneous liver transplantation and sleeve gastrectomy improved weight loss and led to decreased rates of metabolic complications among obese patients compared with liver transplantation alone, according to recently published data.
“The multidisciplinary management of obese patients with decompensated liver disease before, during and after [liver transplantation (LT)] has become an important challenge,” Daniel Zamora-Valdés, MD, said.
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Nurse.com
A study published in the February issue of the American Journal for Infection Control found hand washing saves lives — not just in hospitals — but all healthcare facilities, including nursing homes. Researchers looked at 26 French nursing homes from April 1, 2014, to April 1, 2015, discovering consistent measures encouraging staff and visitors to wash their hands reduces mortality and antibiotic prescription rates, according to a news release from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology highlighting the results.
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NBC
For U.S. curling skip Nina Roth, there’s more to life than just curling.
Curling is a huge part of her life — she grew up watching her dad curl and has been playing since she was 10 — but off the ice, Roth works as an acute care nurse, giving long-term patient care, helping patients recover from life-changing injuries.
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Healio
Endurance limitations appeared significantly associated with greater length of inpatient admission and death during admission for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to study results presented at the BMT Tandem Meetings.
Thus, a formal physical performance assessment could better evaluate a patient’s endurance and physical reserve, improving patient selection and prognostication.
Measures of risk assessment commonly used to predict HSCT outcomes include the validated HSCT-comorbidity index (HSCT-CI) and Karnofsky performance score.
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CIO Review
The advent of patient care technologies is revolutionizing the ways nursing care is conceptualized and delivered. Traditionally, nurses would rely extensively on the senses of touch, smell and sight to gauge a patient’s medical condition. Today, technology is changing the way nursing care is practiced.
Consider pulse oxymetry for instance, which allows the nurses to recognize decreased oxygenation levels among patients even before they exhibit any clinical symptoms and initiate the right treatments.
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The Wall Street Journal
The patient in the operating room was Stanley Kareta, a 29-year-old Army captain who had agreed to donate half of his liver to his wife’s father.
The older man had a liver disease so advanced that his only hope of survival was a transplant. But with about 14,000 people on the nation’s waiting list for donor livers, most of which come from deceased donors, there was little chance he would be approved for one in time.
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