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ITNS
ITNS recently participated in Mediaplanet’s Transplants campaign in which we joined many industry leaders to raise awareness of the thousands of Americans who die every year waiting for a donor organ that never comes. The Transplants campaign was distributed through The Chicago Tribune on April 27, 2016 and is published online.
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In user-friendly, bulleted format, the Introduction to Transplant Nursing: Core Competencies describes the competencies relative to the fifteen domains of transplant nursing practice. As Sandra Cupples, PhD RN, noted in her review of this product "Transplant nurses have an obligation to achieve and maintain competency in practice. Managers have an obligation to assure the ongoing competencies of transplant nursing staff. This book is an indispensable resource for both." Utilize your member discount and purchase your copy today!
American Journal of Transplantation
While immune checkpoint therapy has improved outcomes for many patients with cancer, it could activate a robust immune system that attacks and rejects a transplanted organ. This month, "The AJT Report" explores what this new therapy means for the care of transplant patients who develop cancer. Also this month, we look at updates to candidate criteria for heart transplantation, and at new data from UNOS indicating that 2015 was a record-breaking year for the number of transplants performed in the U.S.
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HealthDay News
Americans are living longer, but those extra years may include poor health or a disability, a new study finds.
Between 1970 and 2010, the average life span for men increased 9.2 years to 76.2 years of age, and for women it increased 6.4 years to 81 years of age, according to the report.
However, the number of years lived with a disability rose 4.7 years among men and 3.6 years among women, while the number of disability-free years increased by 4.5 years for men and 2.7 years for women, the findings showed.
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The Tennessean
Saint Thomas Health expects to perform a heart transplant in the coming six months, ending a four-year hiatus of the first program in Tennessee to carry out the life-saving surgery.
The health system, renowned for its heart failure treatment, has been working for almost two years to assemble the necessary components of a program, including finding a surgical director, and apply to be an active heart transplant center, Saint Thomas Health CEO Karen Springer told The Tennessean.
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Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation via PubMed
The most difficult, and perhaps, most important decision that a clinician makes for a patient on the liver transplant wait-list is when 'not' to proceed with liver transplant. Although an individual may be suitable for transplant surgery at listing, he/she may become too sick while waiting. This article reviews four specific conditions that commonly arise on the wait-list that may render a candidate too sick for transplant: advancing age, sarcopenia, acute on chronic liver failure, and nonliver-related medical comorbidities.
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Health Leaders Media
Have you ever found yourself poring over stacks of data, feeling more like a statistician than a nurse? If you have, welcome to the world of big data. "You have all of these different data sources coming at you on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis. The CFO has a stack of data for you, your productivity-management engineer people have a stack of data for you, HR has a stack of data for you, and then your quality director, your clinical folks, have a stack of data for you," says Jane Englebright, RN, PhD, CEBP, FAAN, chief nursing executive and senior vice president at Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA.
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HCV Next
Harvoni treatment led to sustained virologic response without significant side effects in post-kidney transplant patients, a presenter said at the International Liver Congress. This phase 2, open-label study looked at post-transplant patients with or without cirrhosis randomized to receive Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir, Gilead Sciences) for either 12 weeks (n = 57) or 24 weeks (n = 57). The two groups were well-matched at baseline.
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By Chelsea Adams
 A group of baboons at a research facility in Bethesda, Maryland, have been living with pig hearts in their abdomens for the past several years. The goal of the National Institutes of Health experiment was to see if pig organs would be viable for transplantation into humans. Researchers recently revealed survival data for five transplanted pig hearts — one of the hearts remained healthy in a baboon for nearly three years.
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ScienceDaily
A large study of hand and shoulder surgeries performed at a freestanding, outpatient center found few complications — 0.2 percent in nearly 29,000 patients over an 11-year period. The study appears in the new issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
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