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ITNS
This is your chance to make connections with transplant nurses from around the world! Whether you meet at the ITNS membership meeting, on the hospital tours, at the 25th Anniversary Reception, or the exhibit hall, building your network is the key to success! The Annual Symposium is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the city where ITNS was founded 25 years ago! Attend valuable educational sessions in the city where it all started! Register today to save $100.
ITNS
As April nears, the donation and transplant community will celebrate National Donate Life Month and the final weeks of Phase V of HRSA’s National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign. The campaign brings together organ procurement organizations, eye banks, Donate Life America affiliates, hospitals, and hospital associations to educate hospital staff, visitors, and community members about the importance of becoming an organ, eye, and tissue donor. ITNS is a National Partner in the HRSA-led campaign and encourages hospitals, transplant centers, and donation organizations to implement activities and promote donor registrations. All Hospital Campaign partners are invited to hear early results, share success stories, and celebrate Phase V with a webinar Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 2 p.m. ET.
HealthDay News
More than half of kidney transplant recipients wind up in an emergency department within two years of their operation, a new study finds.
The researchers looked at more than 10,500 kidney transplant patients in California, Florida and New York. The investigators found that ER visits were made by 12 percent of patients within one month, 40 percent of patients within one year and 57 percent of patients within two years. Forty-eight percent of those ER visits led to hospital admission.
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ABC News
Surgeons in Baltimore for the first time have transplanted organs between an HIV-positive donor and HIV-positive recipients, a long-awaited new option for patients with the AIDS virus whose kidneys or livers also are failing.
Johns Hopkins University announced that both recipients are recovering well after one received a kidney and the other a liver from a deceased donor — organs that ordinarily would have been thrown away because of the HIV infection.
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By Keith Carlson
 With superlative clinical preparation grounded in time-tested nursing skills of assessment, diagnosis, communication and patient support, advanced practice registered nurses are in an excellent position to powerfully impact the availability of high-quality primary care to a rapidly aging population. As the population over 65 continues to grow during a shortage of geriatricians, APRNs can fill in the gaps, shoring up the healthcare infrastructure at a point of potential crisis.
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Parent Herald
There has been a renewed interest in compensation for living kidney donors in the U.S. While paying for organs is still prohibited in the country, a new survey showed that most Americans are fine with the idea of donating their kidney. Even more would do so for the right price.
In a paper published on JAMA Surgery, a research group from the University of Florida led by Dr. Thomas G. Peters asked 1,011 Americans if they would be willing to donate their kidney.
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University of Michigan
Despite advances in organ transplantation, the way donor hearts are moved from hospital to hospital remains low-tech: stored on ice and carried in a store-bought cooler. The University of Michigan Health System is testing a new high-tech heart box that circulates blood from the donor to the heart so that it continues throbbing while in transit.
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Texas Public Radio
It was on December 23, 1954 that the first successful human organ transplant took place. It happened at Brigham Hospital in Boston — a kidney was transplanted between two identical twins.
Since that time organ transplants have become almost common place - and they would be even more common and routine except we don't have enough donor organs to go around.
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Fox News
Every 10 minutes, someone is added to the national transplant waiting list, and every day, 22 people on average die waiting for a match, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. But, thanks to innovations in bioengineering, all of that could change.
Conceived nearly 60 years ago, the total artificial heart (TAH) has helped sustain the sickest biventricular failure patients waiting for a transplant. While the design of the primary TAH used today has mostly remained stagnant since the ’80s, when it was first implanted in a patient, new models and clinical trials may lead to a better device and, one day, a permanent solution.
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Albany Daily Star
A study of kidney transplant recipients has shown for the first time that the drug belatacept, which controls the immune system and prevents graft rejection, has a better record of patient and organ survival than a calcineurin inhibitor, previously the standard of care.
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