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First Belgium Transplant Nurse Section Symposium
By Sabine Gryp, RN BSN MSN
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Last year, on April 20, 2015, a new professional association of transplant nurses, Belgium Transplant Nurse Section (BTNS), was founded in Belgium. This association was driven by the head nurses of the three transplant units at UZ Leuven, Belgium and was set afoot under the wings of the Belgium Transplantation Society (BTS). All the transplant centers of Belgium are represented in the association and Mrs. Carine Breunig, head Nurse of the abdominal transplant ward in the University Hospital Leuven was willing to take the presidency. The first symposium on March 3, 2016 in Brussels was an overwhelming success and more than 200 nurses participated. The presentations were simultaneously given in Dutch and French by experts in the field.
Philly.com
Hahnemann University Hospital last week became the second transplant center in the nation to receive permission to use organs from HIV-positive donors. The organs would be given only to patients who also are HIV-positive and have agreed to accept them. The transplants will be part of research that will carefully monitor both the transplant and the potentially deadly disease.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Hospital and health system boards increasingly need members with clinical experience to meet the governance needs of today's industry to help their organizations improve care quality, address population health and reduce costs.
Nurses, however, despite playing a vital role in patient care delivery, have not traditionally had these board opportunities. According to the most recent American Hospital Association governance data, from 2014, nurses make up only 6 percent of hospital board members.
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UPI
Doctors at two universities will start transplanting kidneys this spring from donors with hepatitis C to recipients who do not have the infection, a break with 25 years of medical practice.
Researchers and doctors at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania say older patients, who are more likely to die of something unrelated to their kidney, can benefit from the organs — even if they contract the infection.
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The Columbus Dispatch
Manning Stewart is groggy in his hospital bed, still in a gown, still attached to machines. A few days ago, a surgeon pulled out one of Stewart’s vital organs and replaced it with someone else’s. Recovery is going to take months.
He lies back, obviously drained.
He hasn’t felt this good in years.
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Health Leaders Media
If there's one thing healthcare leaders can agree on, it's that a good RN is hard to find. But sometimes, the bigger challenge is keeping them onboard once they've been discovered. Between the constant pressure to do more with less and the long hours and heavy workload expected of nurses, it's no surprise that nurse burnout is prevalent. "Nurses are at risk for burnout due to the demands of the role of a nurse today," says Rusty McNew, RN, regional chief nurse executive for the Texas region at Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
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Medical Xpress
Recent medical advances have resulted in increased survival of children with complex medical conditions (CMC), such as cerebral palsy, complex chromosomal anomalies, major congenital heart diseases and respiratory disease. Healthcare services for this population are complex and include frequent transitions across inpatient, outpatient, subspecialty and community settings with poor coordination of care, contributing to increased hospital use. Quantifying severity of illness and intensity of service needs have typically used taxonomies designed for adult patients.
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The Daily Item
Pennsylvanians are taking to Facebook and other social media sites with their ugly photos to raise awareness about the need for organ and tissue donations in the commonwealth. The #uglytruth initiative, by Donate Life Pennsylvania, asks participants to register as donors or post an unflattering photo of themself. Additionally, participants are asked to tag friends and family members in their posts and challenge them to register as donors or post an ugly photo.
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STAT
Transplant surgeons at two U.S. hospitals are about to do something long considered taboo: put kidneys from donors with hepatitis C into recipients without the infection.
In first-in-the-world clinical trials scheduled to launch later this spring, independent teams from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University will take kidneys from deceased carriers of the hep C virus, put them into patients with renal failure, and then give them a 12-week course of an antiviral therapy in the hopes that they will emerge infection-free.
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Nephrology News
Genome-wide molecular profiling of kidney biopsies may be a key to catching organ rejection before it’s too late, according to a study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). The research demonstrates that acute and chronic kidney rejection — currently believed to be separate diseases — are actually different parts of the arc of the same immune rejection process.
Despite advances in organ transplant medicine, approximately half of all kidney transplant patients still lose their organ to rejection within 10 years.
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News-Medical
Recently discovered biomarkers may provide valuable new approaches to monitoring immunosuppressive drug therapy in organ transplant recipients — with the potential for individualized therapy to reduce organ rejection and minimize side effects, according to a special article in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, official journal of the International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology.
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