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Healio
While kidney transplant recipients in the United States initially have better outcomes compared to patients in other countries, registry data show that advantage disappears after the first year, according to a study published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
The authors of the paper, led by Robert M. Merion, MD, of the Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, said some of those diminishing outcomes — the authors of the study estimate U.S. patients had a 25% greater risk of graft failure after the first year — may be due to how those transplant patients are managed.
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Nurse.com
Jane, a nonparticipating committee of one, held her own meeting up and down the hospital halls. “I’ve been working in this place for 15 years, and nothing gets better,” she said. “Last year, administration started this nursing shared governance program. This year, I still have the same crappy assignment, except there are fewer nurses on the floor to help me. They’re all at the stupid committee meetings. I don’t know why nurses are making policies anyway — that’s what the managers are for.”
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Advance Healthcare Network
Birth and death are natural parts of life. But while the birth of a child is joyous, death is difficult to deal with and causes grieving, anger, wondering what else could have been done, and sadness among many other emotions.
Nursing is a career where death is a part of not only life but work. Whether you work in a doctor’s office building, a hospital, or a nursing home, you will most likely be faced with a patient dying.
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Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Barton's kidneys have failed her.
The Hillsboro, Mo., mother has end-stage renal disease, and in order to survive she's on dialysis 18 hours a day. Fluid pumped into her veins through a tube in her stomach cleans her blood as a kidney should.
Barton, 38, is among the roughly 1,000 St. Louis-area residents who are waiting for a kidney transplant, a wait that can last years.
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MedPage Today
The risk of death from infection after kidney transplantation dropped by half since the 1990s in Finland, researchers reported.
The mortality rate per 1,000 person-years for patients having transplants during 1990-1999 was 9.1 (95% CI 7.5-10.7). That rate fell to 4.6 (95% CI 3.5-6.1) in 2000-2012, said a research team led by Susanna Kinnunen, MD, of Kuopio University Hospital of the University of Eastern Finland.
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The Clinical Advisor
The use of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) is associated with significant improvements in survival in patients undergoing liver transplantation because of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver disease and decreased the number of patients with HCV needing liver transplantation, according to a study published in the Journal of Hepatology.
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Medical Xpress
Experts in pediatric kidney disease have published a new staging system to help doctors better predict the length of time until a child with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will need to undergo a kidney transplant or start receiving dialysis. Although this type of prognostic guide exists for adults, this is the first such tool specific to children.
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Healio
Researchers found that lactate and choline-derived metabolites predicted poor graft function in both native livers and liver grafts, according to a recently published study.
High-resolution magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance appeared to be a valid technique for evaluating graft quality and the consequences of cold ischemia on grafts.
“Evaluation of graft quality is a highly complex daily task for transplant teams, as many factors must be considered,” Francois Faitot, MD, PhD, from the Hopital de Hautepierre, France, and colleagues wrote.
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MD Magazine
A long, flat line ran across the screen of the electrocardiogram. For Jonathan Bartels, RN, it felt as if gravity had doubled. He stood motionless with the rest of the emergency department team, their shoulders stooped and their heads hanging low to their chests.
The team was not unfamiliar with the vacuous feeling that often accompanies a patient’s passing. Every one of them had lost dozens of patients before and were not ignorant of the fact that death is always looming in the emergency department. For Bartels, though, this time was different.
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